A judge has sentenced a man who permanently maimed his infant
daughter to more than eight years in prison for “an egregious breach of
trust.”
Malcolm Ricketts’ daughter, “Heaven,
is serving her own life sentence” after he shook her so hard she is
developmentally delayed and unable to walk, talk or see properly, said
Ontario Superior Court Justice Bonnie Croll.
She sentenced Ricketts to eight years
and four months in prison, on Thursday, his daughter’s third birthday.
After credit for pre-trial custody, he must serve five more years.
In July, Croll found Ricketts, 23,
guilty of five counts of violence against his girlfriend, Christina
Hammond, 21, and their then-infant daughter, Heaven Hammond-Ricketts.
http://www.thespec.com/news/ontario/article/838249--dad-gets-over-8-years-for-maiming-infant
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