She Wanted to End Her Pregnancy. Her Abusive Partner Took Her to Court

She Wanted to End Her Pregnancy. Her Abusive Partner Took Her to Court

T hey met at a RadioShack in Montreal in November 1988. She was barely twenty, a waitress new to the city. He was five years older, a big man, six foot three, with a moustache. He seemed nice enough. Chantale Daigle might have been a young, small-town girl—she was from Chibougamau, eight hours north of Montreal—but she knew her own mind. She lived with Jean-Guy Tremblay for five months, and it turned out he was not so nice. She got pregnant. One…