Davey Hilton about to be released
Former boxing champion Davey Hilton, convicted in 2001 for molesting his two young daughters, will be released on parole on June 20.
Reached yesterday by The Montreal Gazette, Hilton’s current girlfriend said he, the eldest of the fighting Hilton brothers, is innocent. She has no qualms about dating him or having him around her young sister or her niece, she said.
Since Hilton, whose fight record is 40-2-2, has served two-thirds of his sentence, parole is mandatory, but the parole board has imposed strict conditions on his release.
Hilton will live at a halfway house, cannot have contact with his daughters, must follow a treatment program for sexual offenders in denial, must avoid alcohol and drugs, and cannot be alone with any female under 18.
Hilton, who last fought in 2000 (SD12 vs. Dingaan Thobela for WBC super middle title) still denies publicly having committed the offenses against his daughters. However, The Gazette says that at points during his participation in a program for sex offenders he said he committed the vile crimes.
Hilton’s current girlfriend said she’s looking forward to his release.
The girlfriend, who spoke to The Gazette by phone on Thursday, said she has no fear that Hilton would be a danger to her, her 8-year-old sister, or her 9-year-old niece. She said she rarely sees her sister or her niece.
“I would have no fear at all,” the girlfriend said. “He never touched [his daughters]. I believe him 100%. If anybody would just let him explain himself they would discover that he is not guilty of any of this.”
Hilton’s daughters, Jeannie and Anne-Marie, brought their story public in October, 2004, in a book titled “Heart with a Black Eye.” The book detailed the physical and sexual abuse they say their father unleashed upon them while they were between the ages of 11 and 15.
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