A former teacher in Lorette, convicted of sexually abusing an eight-year-old girl, has been sentenced to eight years in prison.

Remi Dallaire had worked as a teacher in Lorette and was charged in 2016.

He was sentenced Wednesday.

In finding Dallaire guilty last fall, the trial judge accepted the crown's argument that Dallaire formed a relationship with the girl's mother in a calculated effort to gain access to her daughter.