Pierre Marion

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In the Dock (eBook, ePUB)

Victims of Social Injury

Beschreibung

***FOR EVALONLY!!!***** Reading this book, we are shocked to realize how a family can be broken when they are forgotten, ignored or judged by those institutions whose mission is to offer them support. We discover the true story of a tragedy that not only brought its victim into despair, solitude and eventually death, but also imprisoned his close ones into silence. Fortunately, the situation of criminal act victims and their families has changed but only because they have let their voice be heard, as Pierre has done on behalf of his father and his family. But at what cost? The answer is in his book: At the cost of his fathers inner life. The day of the abduction marked the beginning of Charles journey into solitude which continued to deepen until his death. Being abducted and having his reputation and honor destroyed resulted into isolation, as if he had been dehumanized After 40 years, I hope that this book will help towards re-establishing the reputation of the victim and his family, and that shedding light at the end of this very long tunnel of suffering will be their reward.

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Autor

The author, Pierre Marion, has made a career in international development, which has included engagements in the Eastern Caribbean, West Africa and in Central America, where he remains. Pierre wanted to record the events and the communications so he began to record these 35 years ago. As time passed he felt a need to honor the victims who had to live through an unnecessary emotionally tortuous time period, and this story is the result. It is late summer in 1977 in the Québec Province of Canada, when a credit manager of a notable banking institution in Sherbrooke is kidnapped. In its day a $1 million ransom was an unheard of amount of wealth, and the abduction received international coverage. At the same time, a prevalent criminal profiling theory believed families or someone close to the family is nearly always involved in abductions and ransom demands. How did the family walk a tightrope of cooperation with investigators and protect themselves from having misconstrued events and comments become arguments for what might later land them on the bench of the accused? And who was feeding information about the investigation to the media, and why? This just unleashed waves of public negativity and other unintended consequences. And how could a chance beer at a local pub break the case wide open nearly eleven months after the abduction? Did it end the ordeal, or what then would follow and for how long? It is with this in mind that Pierre Marion, the hostage's son had to tell the real story, as best he could. The names of most characters where changed so their identities would be protected.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris US
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781503556218
• Artikelnr.: 69346795