An Ontario judge has handed down one of the most egregious sentences I’ve seen in a long time to a woman who forced a toddler’s hands into a pot of boiling water, causing fourth-degree burns.
For that, Superior Court Justice Helen MacLeod-Beliveau is the latest winner of the Eight-Ball Award, handed out in this column to highlight some of the worst perversions of justice in our court system.
As perversions go, this one falls on the severe side of the judicial spectrum, bringing not only Canada’s administration of justice into disrepute but also plunging this country’s justice system to a new low.
Unimaginable agony
Magan Marie Muir, now 24, was supposed to be caring for two children in 2007. Instead, she took the hands of two-year-old Damon Reddom Stone — her then-boyfriend’s son — and plunged them mercilessly into a pot of boiling water.
The toddler’s hands were immersed to his wrists, causing second, third and fourth-degree burns and weeks of unimaginable agony and pain.
Muir lied to police when they investigated the burns, which hospital officials immediately recognized as a deliberate act to cause serious injury.
Muir told police Damon was burned after he climbed up to the stove and knocked a pot of boiling water to the floor.
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Wow… That’s just disgusting…