Alice Munro’s husband declined to address the courtroom after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting the author’s daughter but it was noted that he'd donated $10,000 to a program for abuse victims, a court transcript shows.
Gerald Fremlin pleaded guilty to indecent assault in a Goderich, Ont., court on March 11, 2005—an admission that wasn’t made public until his stepdaughter Andrea Skinner wrote about her childhood abuse in a Toronto Star essay earlier this month.