Alice Munro’s Husband Declined to Address Court After Guilty Plea, Transcript Shows

Nobel Prize-winning Canadian author Alice Munro attends a Royal Canadian Mint ceremony to celebrate her win by issuing a silver five-dollar coin at the Great Victoria Public Library in Victoria, on March 24, 2014. The Canadian Press/Chad Hipolito

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.