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The horrific sex slaying of a 12-year-old boy sent tremors reverberating throughout the city nearly 44 years ago.
Emanuel Jaques was a shoeshine boy, a child of the city, who recently arrived from Portugal with his impoverished immigrant parents.
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On July 28, 1977, he was lured by three men to a seedy apartment above a Yonge St. massage parlour called Charlie’s Angels, where he was raped and then murdered.
Toronto has never been the same.
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Forty-three years, to be exact.
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And now, the 70-year-old child killer will have to wait some more after his latest bid for parole was torpedoed.
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Betesh was convicted of first-degree murder in the July 29, 1977 sex slaying of 12-year-old shoeshine boy Emanuel Jaques.
It was a shocking watermark in the city’s long history and any veneer of WASP respectability was pulverized into powder that terrible, hot day, so long ago.