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Top court won't hear case of man spared jail for sex assault of native girl
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| Contributor | Penguin |
| Last Edited | Penguin Oct 20, 2005 10:50pm |
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| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Friday, October 21, 2005 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | TIM COOK
REGINA (CP) - Aboriginals say the Supreme Court's refusal to review the sentence of a Saskatchewan man who sexually assaulted a 12-year-old native girl is another example of a racist justice system.
"The justice system has never given Indian people a fair shot at anything," said Robert Whitehead, chief of the Yellow Quill First Nation, the girl's home reserve. "... If anybody from my community did that to a 12-year-old girl it would be an automatic jail sentence and it wouldn't be a lenient one either."
Dean Edmondson escaped prison time when he was sentenced to two years of house arrest in 2003.
The girl's uncle, who can't be named to protect her identity, said the teen has turned to alcohol since the 2001 attack and has attempted suicide. |
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