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Owolabi Adejojo was sentenced to 52 months in prison in March for sexually assaulting a psychiatric patient in Montreal. He was admitted to Canada as an asylum seeker one month earlier. (Baltimore police)
A man from Nigeria who was claiming asylum in Canada has been sentenced to 52 months in prison for sexually assaulting a woman in a psychiatric ward at a Montreal hospital.
Quebec court Judge Dennis Galiatsatos sentenced 40 year-old Owolabi Adejojo in March, calling his behaviour "despicable."
The assaults took place in February 2018, one month after Adejojo entered Canada from the U.S. and filed a refugee claim.
A few months before that, Adejojo was accused of attacking two men with a beer bottle in Baltimore.
It's not clear how Adejojo was able to get into Canada, why authorities didn't seem to be aware of his assault charges in the U.S., or how he ended up in the psychiatric ward.
"I must confess that the lack of detail and information given to the court by the defence about the accused's personal situation was highly unusual and somewhat unsettling," Galiatsatos noted in his decision.
"The court is left completely in the dark about who he is and what his personal circumstances are."
'The stuff of nightmares'
The victim is a 57-year-old woman who was admitted to the psychiatric ward after her family noticed an alarming shift in her behaviour, and was worried she may harm herself.
She was committed to the psychiatric ward against her will, by court order.
Owolabi Adejojo was sentenced to 52 months in prison in March for sexually assaulting a psychiatric patient in Montreal. He was admitted to Canada as an asylum seeker one month earlier. (Baltimore police)
A man from Nigeria who was claiming asylum in Canada has been sentenced to 52 months in prison for sexually assaulting a woman in a psychiatric ward at a Montreal hospital.
Quebec court Judge Dennis Galiatsatos sentenced 40 year-old Owolabi Adejojo in March, calling his behaviour "despicable."
The assaults took place in February 2018, one month after Adejojo entered Canada from the U.S. and filed a refugee claim.
A few months before that, Adejojo was accused of attacking two men with a beer bottle in Baltimore.
It's not clear how Adejojo was able to get into Canada, why authorities didn't seem to be aware of his assault charges in the U.S., or how he ended up in the psychiatric ward.
"I must confess that the lack of detail and information given to the court by the defence about the accused's personal situation was highly unusual and somewhat unsettling," Galiatsatos noted in his decision.
"The court is left completely in the dark about who he is and what his personal circumstances are."
'The stuff of nightmares'
The victim is a 57-year-old woman who was admitted to the psychiatric ward after her family noticed an alarming shift in her behaviour, and was worried she may harm herself.
She was committed to the psychiatric ward against her will, by court order.
