The Granby girl’s father, who claims to have walked, testified Thursday to find parole, he who has been jailed for 15 months for duct tape confiscating the victim.
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“I’m trying to rebuild because I lost everything that day. I lost my daughter, I lost my family. […] I made bad decisions that got me where I am today,” he told commissioners.
The 34-year-old stands before the Parole Board of Canada (PBC) today to persuade board members to grant him his release. In January 2022, he pled guilty to one charge of compulsory detention.
A publication ban prevents us from revealing her identity to protect that of the deceased. To this day he cannot explain why he decided on the night of April 28th to 29th, 2019 to tie up his own daughter with “duct tape” and a shirt tied like a straitjacket.
“I wasn’t there anymore, it wasn’t working normally anymore,” he said, blaming the exhaustion at the time. I shouldn’t have done it, I didn’t see the solutions.”
The grandmother testifies
Early in the hearing, the victim’s grandmother made a moving statement to PBC, demanding that the accused remain in custody. “Quebec as a whole is angry that he can be released after such a short time,” she said.
“When he gets fired, you send the message that a child is not important,” she added. Imagine the trauma this child went through before dying.”
In his testimony, the girl’s father said he “sidestepped” the pain he caused his loved ones. “I had no idea that something so dramatic could happen,” he said. There are no excuses.”
Tied up with tape
During the trial of Granby’s mother-in-law, the more than disturbing circumstances of the girl’s death were uncovered. The father had admitted to wrapping his own daughter in “duct tape” and a shirt tied like a straitjacket to pin her to the floor of her room while she tried to climb through the window in the current on the night of April 28 flee -29.
The next morning he had gone to work as if nothing had happened with the little one still attached. He then exchanged text messages with his then-wife, who told him that she had been “tied up properly”.
It was finally around 11:30 a.m. when the father called 911 and found his daughter was on the ground unresponsive and not breathing. She had finally succumbed to her injuries, she who was in a lamentable state of thinness. Many had described her as “skeletal.” The child’s death led to the creation of the Laurent Commission.
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