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Alice Munro’s husband declined to address court after guilty plea, transcript shows
Alice Munro’s husband declined to address the courtroom after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting the author’s daughter but it was noted that he’d donated $10,000 to a program for abuse victims, a court transcript shows.
Gerald Fremlin pleaded guilty to indecent assault in a Goderich, Ont., court on March 11, 2005 – an admission that wasn’t made public until his stepdaughter Andrea Skinner wrote about her childhood abuse in a Toronto Star essay earlier this month.
After he uttered the word “guilty” and the facts of the case were read to the court, Superior Court Justice John Kennedy asked Fremlin if there was anything he wished to say.
“No, Your Honour,” Fremlin replied, according to the transcript obtained by The Canadian Press.