Dgino Chevalier is illiterate, like his sister. Speaking in court is a test for him. He searches for his words. “I have difficulty speaking. I should have stayed in school longer.” His snatches of sentences have undeniable accents of sincerity. When he gets up in his box, he nods, opening up a little more as the minutes go by. “Impulsive”, he only manages to say when the president asks him to explain the violence committed against his partner. There were many of them. The last time was in June 2021, when he was under judicial supervision. “I get angry very quickly… I have changed. Before, I saw men above women. This is no longer the case “.
Tears come to his eyes. He tells his story modestly. He is the youngest of four children. His parents come from the Traveler community. His father ? “Complicated… He had his preferences between children. I didn’t get along with him.” His mother ? “The best mother!” “. He says he doesn’t remember her being violent with his sister, Priscilla, sitting next to him in the box. He grew up in Lanester, left school in 5th grade. “For me, it was useless. Today I know it’s important.”
“One day I will see my children again”
He was then 16 years old. Afterwards, he did nothing but “hang around… I was doing anything… A wanker…”. He met the future mother of his children when he was 21. They have a first daughter. Then another daughter and a son. In the meantime, he started to beat her. “In total, I spent 7-8 years in prison,” he says. He is now 30 years old. The president lists her criminal record. He doesn’t even remember all his violent outbursts. He expresses his admiration for his younger brother. “He is more mature than us, his brothers and sisters. He found his wife. She put him on the right path…”. He no longer sees him, nor his three children. “One day I will see them again. I will tell them to go the right way,” he said.
“It’s abominable”
Since his last incarceration, Dgino Chevalier has begun to change. The detention report does not note any incidents. He works, is respectful of the staff. “I’m getting older. I understand things better. The harm I did to that person is abominable. A monster… Since then, I haven’t touched a drop of alcohol. It clicked for me.” He says he started drinking when he left school. “I drank everything… I was dangerous, impulsive…”. He now says he would like to get help for his bouts of violence. “I know now that I have to do everything to get through this. When I look at my life behind me… Not great…”.
“Everything, everything, everything, everything to get me through”
He said he was violent “to be respected”. He thinks he was copying his father. “He was a model of violence. I know today that this is not a good model. A real man is someone who loves people. I realized it too late.”
Questioned again by the attorney general, he assured that he was “fed up with this life of wickedness. If I’m given a chance, I’ll do everything to seize it, to get out of it. Everything, everything, everything, everything.”
“Once he took the gun against me”
He sees the pastor in prison and “I pray a lot for this man who I hurt.” His mother is called to the stand. She struggles to open up too. Then she collapses. She recounts ten years of almost daily beatings from her husband. “Once he took the gun against me. I had to leave in the night with my six-month-old baby in my arms.” This baby was Dgino. In his box, he cries.
2024-02-06 11:11:28
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