Article: Canadian Couple Jailed for Beating Sons


AP Online
07-05-2004
Dateline: OSHAWA, Ontario
A Canadian couple who pleaded guilty to charges they beat and sometimes put their two adopted sons in a cage, were sentenced Monday to nine months in jail.

The sentencing judge said the stepparents behavior was cruel, demeaning and damaging.

"Both accused share equal responsibility as parents," Judge Donald Halikowski said. "Both failed."

The couple, who pleaded guilty in January and had been free on bail, were jailed after the sentencing.

The boys were toddlers when they were taken in by the couple, their aunt and uncle.

The woman, 43, and man, 51, pleaded guilty to charges of assault with ...

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