{"id":43867,"date":"2026-05-13T19:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/43867\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T19:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:45:12","slug":"montreal-police-seek-additional-victims-of-daniel-rochefort-lawyer-charged-with-sex-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/43867\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal police seek additional victims of Daniel Rochefort, lawyer charged with sex crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal police are seeking possible additional victims of Daniel Rochefort, a 72-year-old lawyer who is already facing sex-related charges involving a minor.<\/p>\n<p>Rochefort was arrested on May 7 and charged with producing child sexual abuse and exploitation material as well as making sexually explicit material available to a child.<\/p>\n<p>He was handed additional charges on Monday, including sexual interference, sexual assault and invitation to sexual touching, all involving a minor. <\/p>\n<p>Those acts were allegedly committed between January 2007 and January 2012. All charges appear to involve a single alleged victim.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police issued a release Wednesday saying that investigators have reason to believe that Rochefort may have had other victims between 2007 and 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators allege Rochefort used social media platforms, specifically Instagram and Snapchat, to contact minors using the pseudonyms dannyrock16752 and dannyrock201721.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rochefort founded Rochefort &amp; Associates in 1996, a firm specializing in labour and administrative law. <\/p>\n<p>He has represented several police officers, including former police chief Philippe Pichet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call 911 or the police\u2019s sexual assault investigation unit at\u00a0 514-280-8502.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[50],"class_list":{"0":"post-43867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-montreal","8":"tag-montreal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}