Gerald Fremlin, Alice Munro's husband, pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting their daughter.

Alice Munro's husband, Gerald Fremlin, declined to address the courtroom after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting the author's daughter, according to a court transcript. The transcript shows that Fremlin made a $10,000 donation to a program for abuse victims. The admission was not made public until the author's stepdaughter, Andrea Skinner, wrote about her childhood abuse in a Toronto Star essay.