Sudanese diplomat’s son gets six-year reduction due to race
An Ontario Superior Court of Justice judge cited systemic racism when reducing Samir Abdelgadir’s sentence for kidnapping a boy from 16 years to 9.5 years.
An Ontario court granted a reduced sentence to the son of a Sudanese diplomat after he was convicted of kidnapping a 14-year-old Toronto boy, citing an “Impact of Race and Cultural Assessment” that pointed to alleged systemic racism as a contributing factor in his background, according to court reasoning.
Some of the cases of “systemic racism” he claimed he experienced as a black Muslim from Sudan included alleged discrimination he experienced in other countries while living abroad with his father, who worked as a UN diplomat.
The case was first reported by the National Post.
Samir Abdelgadir, a 45-year-old Black Muslim, was given just 9.5 years of what an Ontario Superior Court of Justice judge originally said should have been a 16-year sentence for his role in kidnapping a 14-year-old Black boy because the boy’s half-brother stole 90 kilograms of cocaine.
