Dad sentenced to 4 years in prison for stabbing 14-year-old daughter (Alliston, Ontario, Canada)

Dad KAMAL KHANNA has pleaded guilty to attempted murder in his vicious knife attack on his 14-year-old daughter, and has been sentenced to 4 years in prison. The attack took place while the mom was at work.

Dad blames his untreated schizophrenia--and that his daughter was "disrespectful" to him. Despite the fact that this guy has harangued his family from prison--though he was ordered by the courts not to contact them--he could be eligible for parole in two years. Nice news for a girl who continues to have PTSD flashbacks. Tells you a lot about societal priorities, doesn't it? The priorities sure aren't with the victims, that's more than obvious.

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Dad sentenced for attack on child
COURT: Alliston man headed to prison for stabbing daughter
Posted By TRACY MCLAUGHLIN
Posted 6 hours ago

An Alliston father who viciously attacked his 14-year-old daughter with a knife as she lay sleeping in her bed pleaded guilty to attempted murder and was sentenced to prison yesterday in Barrie court.

Kamal Khanna, 46, showed no emotion as he sat in the prisoner's box as his wife sat in the front row of the court.

He was sentenced to four years and four months in prison, and received a two-for-one credit for the time he has already served in jail since his arrest two years ago.

Court heard how his daughter, Ashna Khanna, woke up to a nightmare early one school morning to see her father standing above her, stabbing and punching her. In terror, she fled to her sister's room, but he chased her and punch her and stab her in the face, head, chest and abdomen as her 10-year-old sister watched in horror. The younger girl ran to a neighbour's for help and called police, then called her mother, who had left for work a short time earlier.

Meanwhile, Ashna pretended to lay unconscious and her father finally ceased his attack and left the room, but returned moments later to see her standing up. Again, he began to stab and beat her and hold his hand over her face so that she couldn't breathe. Again, the girl lay still and pretended to be unconscious and her father left to change his bloodied clothes.

In her victim impact statement to the court, the girl's mother, Sangeeta, said she will never forget being at work when her youngest daughter called, screaming, "Daddy is killing Ashna!"

She rushed to her Alliston home to see her daughter covered in blood being removed on a stretcher.

She suffered multiple stab wounds and facial fractures and was rushed to Sunnybrook hospital in Toronto where she underwent hours of surgeries to her head, lungs and kidneys.

In her victim impact statement to the court, the girl, now 16 and a high-achieving student, told the court how she relives flashbacks of the horror each time she looks in the mirror at the scars that cover her body.

"They are a constant reminder of what my daddy did to his baby girl," she said.

"It is so hard when I see girls complain about their flawless stomachs being too fat ; their unscarred chests being too flat. No one understands how blessed they are."

Still, she said she wants to use her own tragedy to help others who have suffered.

"Life is tough. It can break you, I learned that early" she said. "My father almost ended my life, but I lived because one day my pain and suffering will help others."

The court heard Kamal, a banker who graduated with an MBA and moved to Canada from India in 1982, suffered from schizophrenia and often refused to take his medication. Hours after the stabbing, he admitted to police that he used a 12-inch kitchen knife and intended to kill his daughter because she was disrespectful to him. He also said he had been under a lot of stress because his mother recently died and he had been in a recent car accident.

But Justice Michelle Fuerst ruled that his illness was no excuse for the vicious attack on his helpless, sleeping daughter.

"Such an illness does not excuse a person from criminal responsibility," said the judge, who asked the media to be considerate of the family, which has suffered after much publicity.

"I have some doubts that he recognizes the severity of his offence," said the judge.

She noted that after his arrest, Khanna called his family collect while in jail on several occasions to ask them if they would forgive him and let him come home. He lost his telephone privileges as he was under court order to not contact his family.

The judge also recommended that he continue to be treated and have his medication monitored while in custody.

Khanna will be eligible for parole in about two years.