Get email updates with the day's biggest stories. According to Thriault, divining exact dates from the messages of God was a difficult business for mortals, as time passes differently for Him than for them. Then, picking the two-year-old up by the throat, he plunged his fist into the child's face five or six times. Though the members of Rock's group still had to subsist on corn and potatoes, at least now they were making some money, and everything seemed to be going well. The alcoholic and delusional Theriault apparently thought he was driving the devil out of them. Jacques used the acetylene torch to cut a piece off the drive shaft of one of the old junk cars they had in the yard; Rock heated this metal until it was red-hot, and pressed it against Gabrielle's stump. Go to the shop Go to the shop. Everyone pleaded guilty to all charges laid against them relating to Gabrielle's amputation; Rock netted twelve years (later reduced to ten years because of Rock's "genuine remorse and concern for the victim" in the words of the court), Jacques five years, Chantal two years less one day, and Nicole eighteen months. Roch Theriault fatally wounds Solange Boislard in Ontario, Canada. He beat one of his horses to death with a chain, and ordered Claude to burn the body. He then returned to Ontario, and after a couple of days, ordered Claude to exhume Solange's body. Theriault founded and led a notorious sect in the 1980s and was sentenced to life in prison in 1993 for the murder of Solange Boilard. They wandered from town to town, down the Fleuve Saint-Laurent, for a month. The vast majority of the cult's followers abandoned Thriault after his arrest, but during his imprisonment he fathered another four children with remaining female members during conjugal visits. On September 29, 1988, a female member (Solange Boilard) died following an operation by Moses for a stomach ache. Solange Boilard's body was exhumed and properly laid to rest. Theriault, the leader of the most bizarre and violent cult in Canadian history, often physically abused his followers. He was sentenced to life . Hogla There was no honeymoon; the group piled back in the van for the five-hour trip home, Thriault joking with the other girls all the way home. They found no signs of foul play, but Thriault swore that if anyone else died on the commune, their body would stay there. This includes ebooks of every book and magazine on the site. "It's not looking so good, is it?" He once used a meat cleaver to chop off the hand and part of the arm of Gabrielle Lavalle, one of his concubines. Alert, vigorous, with a clear and lively spirit and well-balanced to serve you every moment of my life. Blood began to pour out of the hand, but Rock just went to get another beer. He would then treat her nicely for a few days, but invariably she would be punished for running away and bringing him dishonour. And they weren't the only ones in the commune Theriault would visit when drunk. Taking a dull meat cleaver, Thriault swung at the exposed bone. Thriault, along with Robert Pickton, Clifford Olson and Paul Bernardo, has been considered one of Canada's most notorious criminals since the 1980s.[2]. Gisle, in particular, would sometimes retreat to her father's house for a few days, until Rock would call and convince her to come back to her "real" family. In the fall of 1988, Solange had begun to feel ill. Thriault convinced her that there was something wrong with her liver, and that there would have to be an operation. Solange Boilard (21) Chantal Labrie (19) Francine Laflamme (18) Nicole Ruel (20) "Marise" (18) Jose Pelletier (20) . Thriault received a life sentence, which he was serving when he was murdered at Dorchester Penitentiary in 2011. Part of this legal action involved testifying on the conditions under which the children of the compound lived. But despite making it to safety she was too brainwashed to live away from the control of the cult leader. Then, he held a vote to determine whether Claude should be stoned to death for offending God; when that motion was defeated, Rock took up an acetylene torch and threatened to open Claude's stomach. He taught himself the work of the Old Testament and the idea the end of the world was coming manifested. Between Mass and his father's forced door-to-door White Beret literature distribution campaigns, Roch developed an abiding hatred for Catholicism in particular and organized religion in general. On August 16, 1989, she made it to a hospital, and concocted some story to explain the missing arm. When expanded it provides a list of search options that will switch the search inputs to match the current selection. He hog-tied Claude and suspended him from the ceiling for an hour. In addition to dealing with cases of altered consciousness and dissociative disorders, he was drawn to shamanism, and with the history of polygamy. Even when the police came, at the behest of the families of some of the girls, they refused to speak. Jose Pelletier (20), Jacques Fiset (mid-twenties) [3] Thriault began to inflict punishments on followers that he considered to be straying, by spying on them and claiming that God told him what they did. In fact, at one point during the retreat, Thriault went hiking by himself, and climbed up on a rocky outrcopping. In 1993, Thriault was sentenced to life in prison for the gruesome murder of his wife, Solange Boilard, who was yet another victim of his "medical" intervention, after he disembowelled her. Greg Lupson. Roch Thriault (pronounced "Rosh Terry-o") was born in the Saguenay Valley of Qubec on May 16, 1947, to Hyacinthe and Pierrette Thriault, the second of seven children and the eldest boy. This was not unusual, and Gisle, Claude, Francine, and Marise all managed to sneak away into the bush to hide. His subsequent defeat of King Harold II at the Battle of Hastings marked the beginning of a new era in British history. Rock attempted to fix it himself, punching the uterus back inside Gabrielle's body and fashioning a wooden cone and truss to plug everything up. Retrieved March 15, 2013, from, MacEachern, B. Robert Boilard passed away at age 44 years old on February 24, 2003. In a desperate attempt to bring the cult back to his original teachings, Theriault would 'purify' his followers by stripping them naked and then whipping them. Gabrielle, however, did not. After trying to perform an enema by shoving a plastic tube up her rectum, Thriault sliced open her stomach and pulled out her intestines with his bare hands. Everyone went back to the cabin, and Rock ordered a warm bath for her, filled with cherry. All Family Trees results for Adelard Boilard. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. He was born on May 15, 1934, a son of . Rock became convinced that he was pregnant with his deceased wife Solange. Even Maryse Grenier wasn't willing to testify against Rock. From the birth of the cult in Sainte-Marie, Quebec, in 1977, Theriault banned his followers from staying in contact with both their families and the Seventh-day Adventist church as a whole. Retrieved March 2013, from, Dimmock, G. (2011, November 14). In 1978, Thriault was removed from Seventh-day Adventist Church. The members of the commune were regarded as eccentric, but hard-working neighbours. Jacques and Maryse were charged with neglect towards their oldest daughter, now five, and Claude and Solange Boilard were similarly charged for their treatment of Simon Ouellette, now three. Although Gabrielle fled to a women's shelter, she returned to the compound instead of seeing a doctor. Gabrielle would act as coroner, and Roch's other six wives would act as jury. He explained that in the hierarchy of the group, Veer was a slave, and that if he underwent the castration he would become a eunuch, which would be a step up. After an olive oil and molasses enema, he. All of these people, plus Roch, began hanging around at Gisle's apartment. Claiming to have the power of resurrection, Thriault bored a hole into Boilard's skull with a drill and then had other male members (along with himself) ejaculate into the cavity. He made all of his members wear a tunic and moved them to another site in Ontario. One night in February, 1987, Rock threw a hunting knife at Gisle, creating a wound three inches deep in her thigh which immediately began gushing blood. They found the child's remains, and the commune members told the story of Veer beating the child. Paul Veer never complained of another headache. In 1984, the group relocated from Quebec to a new site near Burnt River, a hamlet in Central Ontario now part of the city of Kawartha Lakes. Sometimes he would hold two women's children over a fire and threatened to throw one of them in; he loved watching his wives beg for their own child to be spared. Of a jury of ten, including Roch jr, only three voted against the new motion Jacques Gigure, Maryse Grenier, and Gisle. During this time, Rock was also charged with obstruction of justice that occurred in connection with an incident in which he and his followers were harassing the daughter of one of Rock's children's foster parents. At the time of his death in 2011 he was continuing to serve out a life sentence, having been denied parole in 2002. It is very true that I nibble, a damnable fault which I will never again repeat. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. But the court ordered an independent assessment, and that team, including Dr Rhal Huneault and Dr Martine Miljkovitch, recommended that the children be returned to Burnt River immediately. Thriault, of course, would be their guide. I understand it very well because of the Law of Death in which it exists, but within myself I am well. The group buried her then disinterred her a few days later. Sex abuse was rife as was being made to eat their own faeces. Only Mose was permitted to express any warmth whatsoever towards the children. Matthew Mellon, the billionaire banking heir, died suddenly at a rehab facility in Cancun, Mexico. This button displays the currently selected search type. The Murder of Solange Boilard, member of the Ant Hill Kids cult. Roch convinced M Auclair to check the 38-year-old cancer patient Geraldine out of the hospital and into the Healthy Living Clinic, where even Geraldine's own father was not permitted to visit. Theriault was 63-years-old and his doomsday cult was finally over. But the chilling reality of life inside the doomsday cult, led by Theriault, was far more sinister. He made his followers eat excrement and dead mice. 2:33. "Gisle" was one such a woman. According to this version, Samuel was crying that night and keeping Veer awake. MyKawartha Article: Former Burnt River cult leader killed in jail . The depraved cult leader was murdered by his cell-mate, Matthew Gerrard MacDonald. Between this, and his interest in a number of topics that gave the illusion of a penetrating intelligence for which he was often praised (even by psychiatric evaluators after his ultimate arrest), he came to crave attention. He squeezed Gabrielle's hand in a vice. He also ordered Jacques to be circumcised, his whole glans removed. A week later he agreed, and they were married on January 8, 1978, at an Adventist church in Montral. That spring, Gisle, pregnant and feeling rejected by the lack of attention Roch gave her since their marriage, gave her new husband an ultimatum: either he break the commune and encourage his followers to find new homes, or she would move back in with her father. He was using his amateur wood sculpting sales as an excuse to go out of Thetford Mines for Qubec City on the weekends to carry on trysts with women he met there. Thriault maintained multiple wives and concubines, impregnating all female members as a religious requirement, and fathering 26 children. Roch Theriault subjected his followers to horrific abuse - until one of them managed to escape. As far as Rock was concerned, if the rest of the world wouldn't voluntarily give them what they needed, they would have to take it. Lavalle underwent harsh treatment at the Ontario commune during the late 1980s, suffering welding torch burns to her genitals, a hypodermic needle breaking off in her back, and eight of her teeth being forcibly removed. The typical response, of course, was that the girls could have money, but only if they left Rock. Nicole Ruel (20) Before the cremation, he had Gabrielle remove one of Solange's ribs, which Rock kept in a leather wrapping to carry around with him. The authorities realized he was a delusional crank, but without any proof he was a dangerous delusional crank, they released him under his own recognizance. Compare DNA and explore genealogy for Jean Baptiste Boilard born 1645 Bournezeau, Fontenay-le-Comte, Poitou, France died 1737 Beaumont, Canada, Nouvelle-France including parents + descendants + 1 photos + 2 genealogist comments + DNA connections + more in the free family tree community. As for the others, all of this served only to make them more obsequious. Then he had someone else sew her wound closed, and Solange got up. With reports from The Associated Press and The Canadian Press, Roch Theriault is shown in this 1981 file photo. Thriault designed and assembled a rough sawmill from a chainsaw, a snowmobile engine, and some bicycle parts. "The population, myself included, will be able to have a long night's sleep tonight," Lavallee, 52, said after the parole hearing. Even the children weren't safe from his sick abuse. Finally Gabrielle, who had already had her private parts burned, eight of her teeth removed and part of her breasts sliced off, fled. Veer's job, in addition to his normal responsibilities of chopping wood, storing food rations for the winter, and continuing construction on "Mose's" growing wood cabin palace, would be to babysit the group's three non-Thriault children: Samuel Gigure, age 2; Miriam Gigure, age 4; and Simon Ouellette, age 2, son of Solange and Claude during their brief "marriage." Something went wrong, please try again later. Within minutes, 32-year-old Solange Boilard, who complained of stomach problems, lay naked on a wooden table in one of the commune's log cabins. This hurt Gisle immeasurably and she fled from the cabin, but an enraged Thriault pulled her down and squeezed his hands around her throat. "Sitting behind him (at the hearing) brought back all the memories of the time, when I weighed 80 pounds and had to help the authorities capture him. Then life at the commune went back to "normal.". Chantal Labrie (19) Click here to upload yours. But her indiginity didn't end there as, believing he could now ressurect the dead, Theriault drilled a hole into her skull and ejaculated into the cavity, ordering the men of his cult to do the same. Thriault was accused of castrating a 2-year-old boy, as well as one adult man. Thriault abandoned the Adventist diet. Lavallee testified against Theriault during his trial, describing years of brutal abuse that included having one of her teeth ripped out of her mouth with a pair of pliers. This was not unusual, and . This happened three times before her final burial. Gigure didn't like the idea, but Thriault called another vote anyway. Unreliable citations may be challenged or deleted. Here's the knife, I've sliced him up." 1.8K 2 She had talked about having a stomach ache. Death Roch Thriault was found dead in his cell, February 26, 2011, at Dorchester Penitentiary, in New Brunswick. To prove their loyalty, cult members were told to cut off each others toes. When Boilard did not return to life, her corpse was buried a short distance from the Ant Hill Kids' commune. On the other hand, Thriault felt that now Veer was a security risk, and enjoyed tormenting him, beating him, and playing games in which he would instruct his followers to pierce Veer through the chest with knives and bleed him to death only to call them off, like God called off Abraham from sacrificing Isaac, at the very last minute. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. I do not want to be a fat and plump servant. When he proved himself quite capable in this enterprise, Zita began giving him workshops on quitting smoking for Thriault to run a traditional gateway for Adventist evangelism. And doomsday cult leader Roch Theriault wanted to ensure his believers a place in heaven following what he believed was the imminent end of the world. They would write letters like this: I am writing about what you said on the subject of nutrition. Franois and Roch-Sylvain remember the disembowelling of Solange Boilard. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Along with Clifford Olson and Paul Bernardo, Thriault was considered one of Canada's most notorious criminals. Claude Ouellette (24), Jacques Gigure (24), his wife Maryse Grenier (23), and their six-month-old baby girl. He was 63. He then ordered another follower to stitch up the wound with a needle and thread. If anyone fell asleep, he'd smack their head with a four inch thick club. He squeezed Gabrielle's and Gisle's nipples with vicegrips until they bled. My eyes saw things that went beyond them. . [Solange Boilard] ~ master of life and death In the fall of 1988, Solange . This was all built by his two male and nine female followers four of whom were pregnant, and all of whom were also responsible for the commune's ten children, ranging in age from one to fifteen. On Sept. 28, 1988, one of the women, Solange Boilard, 32, complained of stomach pains. I'm going to treat you tonight." He was stabbed in the neck with a shiv and afterwards MacDonald walked up to prison guards and told them: That piece of s*** is down on the range. Main Menu. If the parents refused, it would only reinforce what he had always said about them; if they agreed, the group would have money to continue its way of living in isolation. Roch became fascinated with the Old Testament, with its strict codes of masculine authority; he was also fascinated with Apocalypse, with its message of violent retribution for sin in the end times and the division of the human race into the elect and the reprobate. His second swing amputated Gabrielle Lavalle's arm completely off. In addition to the assault of Lavallee, Thriault was also sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife Solange Boilard, on whom he performed a horrifically crude surgery when she was suffering from what's thought to have been appendicitis. The town's local school went up to the seventh grade, and none of the Thriault kids went any further not even young Roch, who was bright, outgoing, and seemed to enjoy learning. Thriault encouraged them all to drop out of college; after all, Christ was coming soon, so there wasn't much point to learning skills to get by in a world that was already doomed. Eventually, Gisle became very concerned that she might lose Roch to one of the other girls, and took the initiative to propose to him herself. He started pressing and punching Solange's stomach; when she put her hands up to fend him off, Rock simply told her to move her hands, and she did. [6] Lavalle attempted to escape from the commune after Thriault cut off parts of her breast and smashed her head in with the blunt side of an axe, but upon her return he removed one of her fingers with wire cutters, pinned her hand to a wooden table with a hunting knife, and then used a cleaver to amputate her arm. History solange boilard deathfeathered friend questions and answers.
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