CANADA
Brandon Sun
By: Staff Writer
Friday, Sep. 12, 2014
By Ian Hitchen
An Old Order Mennonite woman who pleaded guilty to shocking two girls with a cattle prod, and to strapping one of them, has been sentenced to probation for the abuse.
The Crown says her crimes were just a small part of a much larger investigation that revealed allegations of widespread child abuse at the community and led to charges against more than a dozen adults.
The investigation led Child and Family Services to apprehend all of the community’s children in February and June of last year.
“What these children experienced from (the woman) is a tiny fraction of what, overall, went on in this community,” Crown attorney Nicole Roch told Judge Donovan Dvorak in Brandon provincial court on Friday.
The woman and her southern Manitoba horse-and-buggy community can’t be identified, as other accused still face charges and publication bans protect the identity of victims and witnesses.
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