Sentencing hearing for former RCMP officer guilty of child abuse
Posted Mar 15, 2017 10:31:03 AM.
Last Updated Mar 15, 2017 10:32:22 AM.
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OTTAWA – The sentencing hearing is set to begin for a suspended RCMP counter-terrorism officer convicted in the severe abuse of his son.
The hearing is expected to take three days.
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The former Mountie, who cannot be identified, was convicted of two counts of aggravated assault, one each of sexual assault causing bodily harm, unlawful confinement, and assault and failing to provide the necessaries of life, and a range of firearms offences.
The evidence presented at trial showed how the young boy was abused, confined, burned, beaten, assaulted and starved in their Kanata home. The emaciated boy was found wandering through a Kanata neighbourhood in 2013 when he was 11-years-old, after he escaped from the basement.
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Meantime, the boy’s stepmother was sentenced to three years in jail, and as of her sentencing date on January 18, still had 17 months to serve.
The woman was found guilty in November of assault with a weapon and failing to provide the necessaries of life.
The pair cannot be named because of a publication ban to protect the identity of the victim.
