Five-year sentence upheld for dad who slashed 11-month-old son with a butcher knife (Alberta, Canada)

More daddy coddling at its finest. UNNAMED DAD, despite all the fuss about mental illness, fits the classic mold of a (would-be) revenge killer. He was all pissed that Mummy didn't love his abusive, manipulative @$$ anymore. He slashed his infant son with a butcher knife, then made a Daddy Drama call to the poice saying he wanted the baby to die. Oh, and that Daddy wanted to die too, 'cause he really had the sads. A standoff ensues. Daddy, for all his sads, is shrewd enough to deliberately conceal that the baby is already seriously injured. Denied that the baby needed help. Blocked the police from getting to the baby.

It's a miracle this baby survived.

And yet we're supposed to go easy on this sh** BECAUSE--we're supposed to go easy on sicko daddies! We always do, you know. Check this out from the defense, as to why we have to indulge this dude:

Defence lawyer Alain Hepner had argued that the use of a knife should not elevate his client’s sentence by 1.5 years over a precedent case in which a young father got 3.5 years for immersing his baby daughter’s feet in scalding water.

WELL! We went easy on Boiling Water Daddy, so we need to go easy on Butcher Knive Daddy too! Got it. We need to go easy on all the f***ing creeps. Yup. Got it!

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/calgary/Five+year+sentence+upheld+slashed+baby/8663264/story.html

Five-year sentence upheld for dad who slashed baby

By Daryl Slade, Calgary Herald
July 16, 2013

The province’s top court has upheld a five-year prison sentence handed down to a father last summer for slashing his 11-month-old baby’s stomach and throat in a jealous rage to get back at the child’s mother.

Alberta Court of Appeal justices Jean Cote, Jack Watson and Brian O’Ferrall said in their unanimous written decision released Monday that the trial judge — provincial court Judge Mike Dinkel — had carefully considered 19 factors in arriving at the sentence.

They said the 33-year-old father, who cannot be named to protect the victim’s identity, “committed a cruel aggravated assault on his child.”

“This father intended the harm he caused,” wrote the court. “In one of his calls to 911 he said that the child was almost dead and he wanted them (the baby and him) to die.

“There was a brief standoff with police when they arrived and he deliberately concealed the child’s injuries with pyjamas.”

Court heard the father, originally charged with attempted murder, was looking after the child while the mother, from whom he had separated but had hoped to reconcile, was out with a friend.

“When the mother did not come home that night, the appellant went ballistic, grabbed a butcher’s knife, undid the child’s pyjamas and inflicted an eight-inch laceration to the child’s stomach and a six-inch cut from the front of the child’s throat to behind his head. And for a period of time he essentially left the child to bleed to death,” wrote the appellate court.

“Despite losing about one-quarter of his blood, the child survived, recovered and will be left with only some cosmetic scarring.”

Defence lawyer Alain Hepner had argued that the use of a knife should not elevate his client’s sentence by 1.5 years over a precedent case in which a young father got 3.5 years for immersing his baby daughter’s feet in scalding water.

“I ask that the court reduce the sentence to three and a half or even four years,” Hepner told justices Jack Watson, Jean Cote and Brian O’Ferrall. “He was going through a litany of psychological problems at the time. When police came, he made the comment: please shoot me ... he had cycled downward leading up to that day, losing his wife and his income.”

Crown prosecutor Jolaine Antonio argued for the sentence to be upheld, saying risk of death and full intention were key factors.

“This was about (the offender) wanting the two of them to die together. There was full awareness and likelihood of death ... he thought about it. There were an entire pattern of steps taken. (The offender) denied the child needed help when asked.”

Antonio also noted the man, who came to Canada from Sudan eight years ago, became involved in a standoff at his door when police came, preventing them from gaining access to the child.

Dinkel, in sentencing the man last year, said his remorse did not outweigh the “rage, jealousy and rejection” over his failed relationship with the boy’s mother that was behind the crime.

“I can only conclude the accused chose to act on his jealousy,” said Dinkel. “The accused used the attack on the child to inflict harm on the mother.”

Crown prosecutor Margot Engley had sought a six- to seven-year prison term after the guilty pleas.