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Stepmother felt guilty for not trying to keep boy safe, trial told
Hours after her husband had been arrested for allegedly torturing his 11-year-old son in the basement, the boy’s stepmother told authorities that she felt guilty for not protecting him. “I’m not saying...
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'I hate myself for it,' father of shackled, starving boy told police
A former Mountie confessed to police that he had kept his 11-year-old son shackled in the basement and rationed his food, giving him just two peanut-butter pitas day. On the day he escaped — Feb. 12,...
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Stepmother says she had no control over husband's abuse of boy
A day after her arrest, the stepmother of an 11-year-old boy who was chained up and tortured in their Kanata basement insisted to police that she didn’t “have any control over it.” “I’m not turning a...
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'I want my family back,' abused boy begs father in video
Shackled and naked in a darkened Kanata basement, the frightened, emaciated boy sobbed as he promised his father he’d stop lying. The 11-year-old also tells his father — then an RCMP counter-terrorism...
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Accused in teen's stairwell slaying denied bail
David Dubois, the 20-year-old man awaiting trial in the April 14 stairwell slaying of Tim Horton’s co-worker Connor Stevenson in an alleged drug deal gone wrong has been denied bail. Dubois sat in...
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Abused boy says stepmom tried to stop dad's attacks
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 Children’s Hospital...
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'I was drowning and he'd say 'I hate you',' boy recounts in child abuse trial
It was a Florida vacation nowhere near ordinary, with their 11-year-old son tied up and left hungry in a room while his Ottawa parents hit the beach. “(My father) wouldn’t untie me to go to the...
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'I was scared he was going to kill me,' boy says at child-torture trial
The 11-year-old boy who escaped his Kanata basement in February 2013 took the stand for a third day at his parents’ child-torture trial on Friday, recounting disturbing punishments inflicted by his...
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'I forgive him,' Kanata boy tells father's child-abuse trial
An 11-year-old boy who almost starved to death in 2013 has forgiven his father, now on trial for torturing the boy in the basement of their Kanata home. “I miss the good times, not the evil times. I...
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Ottawa teen jailed 7 years for kidnapping, torture of autistic grocery clerk
A 19-year-old Ottawa man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for his part in the 2014 kidnapping and torture of an autistic grocery clerk who was held in a dog cage for 2½ days. Traveonne...
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Wilno triple homicide accused had dark history of vicious attacks on women
The last time Anastasia Kuzyk kicked her on-again-off-again boyfriend Basil Borutski out of her Wilno, Ont., home, she told an OPP officer: “I thought he was honestly going to kill me. I could see the...
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Carp firefighter sent to prison for drunk driving crash that badly injured...
Trevor Clarke, the Carp volunteer firefighter convicted in June of impaired driving causing bodily harm in an October 2012 collision that left a cyclist alone in critical condition on the side of the...
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Protesters urge Canadians to vote for change, keep pressure on politicians
Singing along to the anti-Stephen Harper protest song “Harperman,” about 100 people demonstrating as part of the countrywide We Can Do Better coalition, gathered on the steps of Parliament Hill...
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Surprise! You're getting married
Everyone in Laury Graham’s life knew she was getting married on Saturday — except her. The Ottawa woman had a pretty regular Friday night. A ham sandwich for supper, and an episode of The King of...
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Non-profit that does taxes for poor asks city for funding from 2016 budget
For the last 35 years, thousands of Ottawa residents facing financial hardship have turned to a non-profit education centre for crisis budget counselling and income-tax services. But in light of...
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Ottawa valedictorian, cheerleader-turned teen pimp arrested in crack bust
One of Ottawa’s notorious teen pimps jailed last year for her role in a ring that beat, drugged and forced girls as young as 13 into prostitution is in trouble with the law again. The girl, described...
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Duck hunter OK after shotgun in his canoe accidentally fires
A duck hunter cheated death as the sun set on White Lake on Saturday when the shotgun in his canoe accidentally fired, hitting him in the shoulder. The 23-year-old White Lake man is an experienced...
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'I was drowning and he'd say 'I hate you',' boy recounts in child abuse trial
It was a Florida vacation nowhere near ordinary, with their 11-year-old son tied up and left hungry in a room while his Ottawa parents hit the beach. “(My father) wouldn’t untie me to go to the...
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Soldier in throes of PTSD killed wife, defence admits at murder trial
Howard Richmond stabbed his wife to death with a knife and screwdriver just after midnight on July 25, 2013, left her body on the edge of a ravine by the South Keys Shopping Centre, then went home...
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Melissa Richmond was "scared to death" to leave husband days before he killed...
Two days before Melissa Richmond was stabbed to death by her husband, she showed up at her mother’s home in tears, saying she was “scared to death” to end her troubled marriage for fear of making ends...
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