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A resident of the Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough who often played with a knife and preached about God and the devil while he forced two crack-addicted women to work as prostitutes for him was convicted on Thursday on 13 charges he faced at the Montreal courthouse.

Emmanuel (Pacman) Stark, 45, registered no reaction as he sat in the prisoner’s dock and listened as Quebec Court Judge Anne-Marie Lanctôt read from a long decision and said she did not believe the testimony he provided in his defence. He was convicted of two counts of trafficking in persons and several counts of having received material benefit from sexual services. Stark, a man who has been convicted of pimping in the past, was also acquitted on five of the charges he faced but the judge based that decision on the weakness of some of the evidence brought against him.

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The judge was convinced that, sometime between December 2016 and February 2017, Stark frequented Place Émilie-Gamelin, a park next to the Berri-UQAM métro well known for being a hangout for drug addicts, to prey on the two female crack addicts, bring them back to his apartment and make them work for him as prostitutes without sharing the money he received.