Canadian officer says Alice Munro claimed her daughter was lying about being abused by stepfather WHIO TV 7 and WHIO Radio [Video]

TORONTO — (AP) — A retired police detective involved in the arrest 20 years ago of the husband of Canadian Nobel laureate Alice Munro, said Friday he was disturbed by the writer’s reaction 20 years ago when she learned her husband would be charged for sexually assaulting her daughter.

Retired Ontario Provincial Police Detective Sam Lazarevich remembers a very angry Munro accusing her daughter of lying when he visited Munro’s home in 2004 to inform the husband that he was going to be charged.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Lazarevich said Munro was furious, defended her second husband and the detective recalls being “quite surprised” by her reaction.

“’That’s your daughter. Aren’t you going to defend your daughter?’” he recalls.

The Toronto Star first reported what the now retired detective thought at the time.

Andrea Robin Skinner, Munro’s daughter with her first husband, wrote in an essay published in the Toronto Star that she had been sexually assaulted at age 9by Munro’s …