CANADA
Global News
By Blaine Gaffney
Reporter Global News
VERNON – The “controlling and manipulative” Okanagan man believed he had the blessing of the Bible when he beat his children.
But a judge says that doesn’t excuse criminal conduct and he sentenced the man to 4.5 years imprisonment.
The assaults took place in the family home at or near Armstrong between October 2009 and August 2012 when the three children were between the ages of 18 months and four years.
Their father, identified in court documents as L.I., would frequently hit the children with a nine inch long wooden comb, or his hands, causing bruises and welts.
On one occasion, L.I. pinned his two-year-old son to the floor and covered his mouth and nose until the child’s face turned red.
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