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(LifeSiteNews) — A Canadian judge gave a lighter sentence to an indigenous man who violently assaulted a child because of what she called the effects of “colonialization” on the individual.
The case concerns a 33-year-old man, known only as K.J.M. due to a publication ban, from British Columbia, who was charged with two assaults on his girlfriend’s two-year-old child which happened last year.
The man had admitted to choking and kicking the child, and the assaults were filmed on a “nanny cam.”
B.C. Provincial Court Judge Tamera Golinsky, in her April 7 ruling, gave the man two concurrent sentences of six months in jail. He was also given 18 months of probation, mandatory counselling, has to give a DNA sample, and not allowed to own firearms for 15 years.
The Crown had wanted one year in jail, while defense lawyers wanted a conditional sentence of two years less a day, or community service.
The assaults were described as “serious and deliberate acts of violence.” The judge cited the man’s history of substance abuse, a traumatic brain injury (TBI) from a past ATV accident, as well as “colonialization” as mitigating factors in the concurrent sentences of six months in jail.
The judge also said that K.J.M. had no past criminal record, was sorry for what he did to the child, and was not brought up in a “traditional” household. The man also did not have official indigenous status and had nothing to do with any past policies relating to residential schools.
However, the judge wrote, “even the dissociation with one’s past and cultural heritage is a negative consequence of colonialization.”
A psychiatric report on K.J.M. shows that his violent assaults were promoted in part by his “substance use, poor stress and coping, and his TBI.”
The term “colonization,” seemingly aimed at erasing Canada’s Christian European roots, has become commonplace to justify a woke agenda.
Ontario’s education minister recently warned all school boards not to have upcoming graduation ceremonies that “engage in divisive or contentious issues of any kind” after news broke that a school board would guide its graduation events through an “anti-colonial lens.”
Indigenous land acknowledgments have also become common in Canada, especially after unproven claims of unmarked graves at former residential schools drew media attention. These “land acknowledgements” have become so prevalent that even King Charles III gave one while delivering the Throne Speech on behalf of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government last May.
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