RCMP officer convicted of abusing son had been investigated for abuse in the past
Posted Dec 14, 2016 07:10:22 AM.
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OTTAWA – A suspended RCMP officer convicted of heinous crimes against his own son had been investigated in the past for abusing one of his other children.
Last month, a judge found the 44-year-old man guilty in a ‘gut-wrenching’ case after hearing how the the suspended counter-terrorism officer chained up his 11-year-old son in the basement and tormented him with a barbecue lighter.
The emaciated boy was found wandering through a Kanata neighbourhood in 2013 after he escaped from the basement.
Now, the Sun has uncovered details of a case from 30 months before the boy was found, where the same man was investigated for abusing another of his children.
The suspended Mountie was charged with hitting one of his children with a wooden spoon in 2010, but according to the Sun, that case was dropped because the Crown felt there wasn’t a reasonable chance at conviction.
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