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NP View: Excessive leniency for the mentally disabled robs society of justice

The courts are failing to protect society

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Canadian courts have become so soft on the mentally disabled that they can no longer be trusted to protect Canadians.

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Take the case of an autistic and intellectually disabled Ontario man: when his little sister was 12, and he was 16, he began sexually assaulting her. It went on for four years — and when he was finally convicted for it, his judge gave him a sentence under half the length required in the Criminal Code, and ordered that it be served at his grandmother’s house instead of prison.

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He would go into his sister’s bedroom to do it, and sometimes ambushed her at the family cabin. He would watch porn and emulate it on her. He would tell her that it was for her own good, that it was preparation for marriage. He would reward her sometimes with money or candy. It ended in May 2022, when she made an audio recording of her brother sexually assaulting her at a friend’s suggestion, and reported the long-term abuse to her high school guidance........

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