"Indigenous ancestry" factored in 6 month sentence for man who abused toddler
BC judge cited "Indigenous ancestry" and colonization’s legacy of "cultural disassociation" as mitigating factor in 6-month sentence for choking and kicking toddler.
A British Columbia provincial court judge cited an offender’s Indigenous ancestry as one of the mitigating factors when sentencing a man to only six months in jail for kicking and choking his girlfriend’s 28-month-old toddler in incidents captured on a nanny cam.
The judge explicitly included K.J.M.’s “Indigenous ancestry” through his mother’s side of a First Nation as a mitigating factor despite the fact that there were no known residential school impacts on his family and he was not brought up in a traditional First Nations household.
