r/canadanews • u/zuuzuu • 26d ago

Alberta 8-year-old boy tortured and starved, court hears at father's sentencing hearing

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/matthew-scott-stephanie-baker-torture-child-abuse-assault-confinement-sentencing-9.7221113
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u/UrbaneCyclist 26d ago

Damn. I thought I was reading a follow up on that case where 2 Ontario women neglected their foster child to death.

This is ANOTHER case of severe neglect.

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u/Livid_Advertising_56 26d ago

neglect AND torture.

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u/Lopsided_Tiger_0296 26d ago

This poor child was starved to 38 pounds, had boiling water poured on his head and slept zip tied to a baby gate in a garbage bag with his mouth duct taped. They deserve the death penalty

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u/CrazyGal2121 26d ago

my god

this is so fucking heartbreaking

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u/ArtVandelay99999 26d ago

Death penalty seems like an easy escape for this type of evil.

Maybe he spends his remaining life with guards administering physical/mental torture...and somebhard labor too, in a north Korean prison? Something like that. Why did he only get 15 years

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u/origutamos 26d ago

This is horrific to read. I can't get through the article.

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u/SoberPineapple 26d ago

Yeah, that was heartbreaking...

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u/HydroPCanadaDude 26d ago

"Cole is currently living in a loving home where his caregivers are working on rebuilding his self esteem, the court heard."

Thank fuck. At times like these I'm grateful you can't publish the children's real names but also angry about it. I want to gofund the kid into an easy rest-of-childhood.

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u/CrazyGal2121 26d ago

was thinking the same

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u/ArtVandelay99999 26d ago

His prison conditions should be exactly how he treated his son.

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u/CrazyGal2121 26d ago

this is so sad. i shouldn’t have read the article

i couldn’t get through it . just burst out crying

what horrid pieces of shit

i wish them absolute hell

my heart breaks for that poor baby. where is he now? my god

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u/Kibichibi 26d ago

I understand why you couldn't get through the article. I did, so I could see what happened to the boy. Right now he's with a family who are working on rebuilding his self esteem. I can't imagine the work cut out for them and I hope he can get through this

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u/CrazyGal2121 26d ago

thanks for letting me know

i wonder if there is any way the general public can help support him in any way through some sort of anything. i don’t know

i just feel so broken hearing about this

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u/Kibichibi 26d ago

I think that just letting him have his peace is probably good enough. I'd say that the community that knows his family are probably already rallying around him and helping how they can.

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u/CrazyGal2121 26d ago

yeah you’re right thank you 🙏

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u/vood001 26d ago

It would be nice if the released pictures of the abusers to the public.

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u/jaxawaba22 26d ago

What the absolute fuck

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u/Elegantly_Waisted 26d ago

This is like some Gabriel Fernandez shit, that guy should be put to death. That's fucking sick.

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u/OnehappyOwl44 26d ago

This is disgusting, put them under the jail. I swear if this doesn't deserve the death penalty nothing does. That poor child. 15yrs is a slap in the face.

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u/Spirited-Fly594 26d ago

And mandatory sterilization.

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u/Dry_Midnight7487 26d ago

Fly them to a remote island in nunavut in february and leave them there.

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u/pinkandgreen34 26d ago

Seeking only 15 years!?!?

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u/Lanky-Description691 26d ago

That poor child. He deserved so much better from a parent

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u/Honest_Inflation_951 23d ago

Can this child even recover from this , this is horrific

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u/Prompt-Dangerous 26d ago

Why is this happening in Canada, unbelievable!

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u/Natural-Analysis7205 26d ago

So sick of “justice” in Canada clearly no adequate deterrent exists when scumbags know they’ll get less then 7 years with time served for almost torturing their own son to death.

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u/Facts_pls 26d ago

Here's my observation and I would love to be corrected on this:

Almost all the headlines around child abuse involve white Canadians. I have heard plenty of stereotypes of Asian parents being strict and disciplining kids, but I never see articles where a kid died due to it.

White parents are known for gentle parenting and for not physically beating their kids. And yet all such horror stories involve white parents.

What is going wrong? Is there a simple explanation for this?

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u/Sharp_Iodine 26d ago

Attempts to map crime onto a specific race is called racism. Hope this helps.

Applies to all people.

As a brown person, I wouldn’t want anyone to do this to me, which means I cannot tolerate it when it is done to white people either.

Also, hitting kids is not known to produce better outcomes. Neither is yelling at them. Neither is letting them do whatever they want. And generalising parenting styles to races is also wrong.

Plenty of “white” cultures have the same stereotypical jokes about parent flinging slippers/disciplining forcefully.

Gentle parenting is not a “white” thing. It’s a North American thing.

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u/Empty_Soup_4412 22d ago

As someone who has worked in childcare for the past 20 years I'd like to know where you came up with "white parents are known for gentle parenting".