A Wallaceburg man looking to score a little re-tail could be facing life in prison over a mannequin fetish that borders beyond bizarre and into the Twilight Zone.

Whether or not you think boys should be playing with dolls, you'll agree men should not. But a Wallaceburg man who admits he has a sexual fetish for female mannequins was sentenced yesterday to 18 months to 30 years in jail for breaking into several Wallaceburg uptown store window displays.

Forty-five-year-old Emilio Talisman had been arrested half a dozen times in the last 13 years for similar crimes. His most recent arrest took place in October when cops found him near a store that featured a mannequin dressed like a French maid. Cops also once found Talisman in an alley behind a store with three mannequins in lingerie. While Talisman has never sought relations with an actual woman, the judge said his behaviour, “strikes fear in the heart of the Wallaceburg and surrounding area community.”

Talisman, who is 5-feet-4, appeared in court in a blue jail uniform with his hands cuffed in front of him, liked long and leggy mannequins.

“This looks like something where some serious treatment would be in order in a prison setting,” said crown prosector Vincent Inverness. “Mr. Talisman will find out what it's like to play with dolls in prison. There is no such plastic there...it's all flesh in blood with a large dose of hard time.”

However, defense attorney Eddie Wingspan said he talked to a doctor at the Centre for Forensic Psychiatry in Youwhoville where Talisman was examined.

“She told me she has no idea if there is treatment available,” Wingspan said. “We don't know if the Federal Department of Justice has any treatment available for mannequin fetishes, and the best they maybe able to do is turn him loose in the general prison population which would no doubt endanger my client.”

Talisman had been paroled from prison only six days before he was arrested outside the Saan's Department Store, about 9pm.

Wallaceburg officer Carey O'Laughlin testified Thursday that Talisman was stopped about 10 feet away from the store wearing a short sleeve shirt, cotton work gloves and a prophylactic after the alarm sounded.

A glass display window was shattered. O'Laughlin said she recognized Talisman.

“In July 2000 there was an alarm at a store on West Nine Mile,” O'Laughlin said. “We arrested Mr. Talisman for stealing a mannequin out of a store front.”

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