Friday, January 15, 2010

Dad to be sentenced in death of 20-month-old son (Akwesasne Mohawk Nation, Canada)

Dad CARSON DAY has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of his 20-month-old son and the attempted murder of the child's mother.

http://www.standard-freeholder.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2262150

Father to be sentenced in death of his son

Posted 5 hours ago

An Akwesasne man who pled guilty to killing his infant son and the attempted murder of the child's mother will be sentenced in late March.

A Superior Court Justice found Carson Day, 22, guilty of second-degree murder in the July 2007 death of 20-month-old Landon and the attempted murder of his common-law spouse.

Justice Johanne Lafrance-Cardinal set aside one day for the man's sentencing.

Day was arrested on July 14, 2007 by Akwesasne Mohawk Police after the mother reported that he had attacked her with a knife and cut her throat at a Martin Road apartment building on Cornwall lsland.

Day will be sentenced on March 30.