- 注册
- 2002-10-07
- 消息
- 402,190
- 荣誉分数
- 76
- 声望点数
- 0
A day after he escaped his Kanata basement, an 11-year-old boy recounted horrific abuse – including starvation and torture – in a police interview he gave from his hospital bed at CHEO.
In the Feb. 13, 2013 videotaped statement, the emaciated boy details how his father, a counter-terrorism RCMP officer at the time, punished him by chaining him up in the basement only to burn him with a BBQ lighter. Doctors, some of whom cried at the sight of the boy’s condition, said he almost starved to death.
The boy, 13, and looking much healthier, testified on Wednesday at his parents’ child-torture trial. He spoke intelligently and watched silently as his videotaped statement was shown in court.
The boy said he had been trying to escape for a month. On Feb. 12, 2013, the boy told police his shackles had loosened and he wriggled out his ankle, and was able to finally free himself. He was down to 50 lbs. and he told police that he was badly dehydrated. He said his father fed him only peanut butter, bread and water. He used a bucket as a toilet, and slept on the basement floor in chains.
His father also videotaped disturbing interrogations of his shackled and naked, starving boy, forcing him to confess for so-called sins like kissing a girl up in a tree.
In the videotaped interrogation, the boy begs: “I want my family back.”
In his taped police interview, the boy is asked if his stepmom ever tried to stop his father.
“Sometimes … a few times where she would … when my dad would go out of whack. She would interfere, she would hold him by the shirt to try to calm him down but my dad sometimes wouldn’t stop,” the boy told police in his bedside interview.
The boy also expresses loyalty to his father, saying not to blame him and “my dad doesn’t deserve to be in jail.”
“My dad didn’t do anything wrong. I don’t want him to go to jail,” the boy told authorities, according to notes read into the court record on Tuesday.
The boy revealed in testimony on Wednesday that his father allegedly molested him when he was around seven.
His father has confessed to chaining up his son and burning him with a BBQ lighter. He’s also confessed to hitting him so hard his son was left with a broken tooth.
gdimmock@ottawacitizen.com
查看原文...
In the Feb. 13, 2013 videotaped statement, the emaciated boy details how his father, a counter-terrorism RCMP officer at the time, punished him by chaining him up in the basement only to burn him with a BBQ lighter. Doctors, some of whom cried at the sight of the boy’s condition, said he almost starved to death.
The boy, 13, and looking much healthier, testified on Wednesday at his parents’ child-torture trial. He spoke intelligently and watched silently as his videotaped statement was shown in court.
The boy said he had been trying to escape for a month. On Feb. 12, 2013, the boy told police his shackles had loosened and he wriggled out his ankle, and was able to finally free himself. He was down to 50 lbs. and he told police that he was badly dehydrated. He said his father fed him only peanut butter, bread and water. He used a bucket as a toilet, and slept on the basement floor in chains.
His father also videotaped disturbing interrogations of his shackled and naked, starving boy, forcing him to confess for so-called sins like kissing a girl up in a tree.
In the videotaped interrogation, the boy begs: “I want my family back.”
In his taped police interview, the boy is asked if his stepmom ever tried to stop his father.
“Sometimes … a few times where she would … when my dad would go out of whack. She would interfere, she would hold him by the shirt to try to calm him down but my dad sometimes wouldn’t stop,” the boy told police in his bedside interview.
The boy also expresses loyalty to his father, saying not to blame him and “my dad doesn’t deserve to be in jail.”
“My dad didn’t do anything wrong. I don’t want him to go to jail,” the boy told authorities, according to notes read into the court record on Tuesday.
The boy revealed in testimony on Wednesday that his father allegedly molested him when he was around seven.
His father has confessed to chaining up his son and burning him with a BBQ lighter. He’s also confessed to hitting him so hard his son was left with a broken tooth.
gdimmock@ottawacitizen.com
查看原文...
