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James Morton: A thug goes free, thanks to police

National Post  July 5, 2010 – 2:00 pm

 

In 2002 a series of particularly brutal home invasions took place in Mississauga, Ont. A gang of thugs, wearing masks and armed with guns and knives, forced their way into homes in the early hours of the morning. They used plastic tie wraps to bind the half-asleep residents by their wrists and ankles.
The gang inflicted dreadful abuse upon their victims, including:

• confining an elderly woman and telling her she would be shot if something went wrong;
• using a knife to carve a dollar sign into a man’s back and trying to cut off his finger;
• grabbing an eight-year-old girl, pushing her down, telling her to say goodbye to her parents and telling the child’s parents that they would take her unless all their money was handed over; and
• sexually assaulting a woman by placing a gun in her mouth while digitally penetrating her vagina, and by placing a gun in her vagina.

It is hard to find any sympathy for those committing such horrific crimes. And it is easy to understand why investigating police and prosecutors felt righteous indignation against those they believed to be guilty.

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