Thursday, my reading PressStill exhausted from a night’s sleep, I suddenly felt an unlikely burst of energy: I wondered if someone had slipped Red Bull into my coffee.
or napalm.
I quickly discovered the cause of this shock: it was the news I was reading at that precise moment.1A year later she argued for parole against the father of “the girl from Granby.”
The father (who cannot be identified under child protection laws protecting his late daughter’s identity) has been exemplary in prison. He was sentenced to four years in prison in January 2022 after pleading guilty to a charge of forcible imprisonment.
Guess what the father pleads before the Parole Commission today to explain his participation in the spiral, for starving, beating, kidnapping and (eventually) wrapping his daughter in a sarcophagus of tape with his wife’s enthusiastic help (leading to her death). The brutality that led to his daughter’s murder?
Hold tight: “I didn’t think about it. »
This guy has always been a real badass. There he presents himself, regretfully, before the commissioners, as a reformed man. He works for him. Learned. Give me some Kleenex and I’ll cry…
The tortured father’s mother objects to her son’s early release.
Shall we hear her, Grandma?
One time, that is?
For those who may have forgotten some important details of the story of the little girl from Granby, we are going to recap to understand how the system helped the father continue to take care of his daughter poorly, with dramatic consequences.
A child was born to ineligible parents2. Her biological mother, who was pregnant, was beating her belly. Mildly intellectually disabled, weighed down by severe mental health issues, consumption: lost custody of her daughter at birth…
The child should be handed over to his father.
Another great example of disability, still frozen. And who – hold tight, again! – The child refused to wake up at night when he was hungry. Her reason: She needs to learn to sleep at night.
It was the father’s mother who gave the statement to the DBJ. She will inherit the younger child under six-month temporary placements, renewable. From 2012 to 2015, the child lived with his grandmother.
To her grandmother, the little one was fine. She lived in a framed house. She was loved. It “worked” just fine. There was no reason to throw her out.
The system has identified a cause: The Youth Protection Act Confirmed the primacy of blood relations. Conclusion: The system gave parents, even the most unfit ones, every opportunity to redeem themselves. Even rubbish like the girl’s father from Granby.
The father initiated proceedings to regain custody of his daughter. He presented himself as a reformed man. He worked for him. He learned…
I will summarize the organization’s bias towards him: every little effort was greeted as an incredible achievement by DPJ staff and judges. If only they don’t wave their hands to greet dad when he takes a bath.
One worker was thrilled to see the father stop using the dope for three weeks!
It was the opposite for Patty. The organization saw her objections to the return of the father she knew so well to her granddaughter’s life as an utterly incomprehensible display of paranoid malice toward a reformed son.
Let me quote a speaker who pleads for the child to be moved from her loving environment to another environment, one that is going to kill her: Madame’s alarm system is failing, she sees dangers everywhere…
We didn’t hear what Grandma said. And the girl died.
And for his role in his own daughter’s death, the father got away with it – because he pleaded guilty to much reduced charges – with four years in prison, only four years in prison…
And he has the right to seek parole after one year, showing himself a changed and reformed man.
Will he get it, his release? Reply in two weeks.
But I remember that he already played this role ten years ago, and now he is a boy without a drain, in the youth court. It worked brilliantly: we understand why he had to dress up as a contrite man who learned from his mistakes in front of the parole board members…
Think about whether or not he’s released in two weeks: four years in prison for playing a key role in his daughter’s death. Just four years. It seems to me that sometimes the computer makes some very poor calculations that destroy the value of lives taken.
