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Thursday, July 30, 2009

Found guilty and not jailed but living it up in Lebanon !!! Justice, Canadian style

What is wrong with our justice system? What has happened to the judges in this country? I wonder if this judge now regrets her decision or maybe she just does not care. What a bad, bad decision. Gone are the days when the word "judge" itself stood for justice and integrity. Nowadays, when a decision is in the hands of a judge, it's like playing Russian roulette. You just don't know which way these judges will go. Well done Justice Polowin. Here's to many sleepless nights - if you have a conscience that is. from Ottawa Citizen: -A man who convinced a judge not to send him to jail after being found guilty of sexually assaulting two children has been sentenced in absentia to three years in prison after disappearing. Ibrahim Farhat, 34, received the sentence Tuesday after being found guilty by a jury in March of sexual assault and sexual interference for repeated incidents of sexual touching on two sisters between 1998 and 2003. Crown prosecutors had been seeking to have him put in jail immediately following his conviction, but Farhat was released after his lawyer convinced Ontario Superior Court Justice Heidi Polowin that he was not a flight risk. Farhat was “a man who had broken the law and walked away with it,” one of the sisters told the court in her victim impact statement. “What were once my memories of childhood and adolescence are now his. What should have been some of the happiest, most freeing memories, he holds hostage,” said the now 23-year-old victim, who can’t be identified due to a publication ban. “He has robbed me of them and turned them into his own. And now he is free. He may be running, but he is still running with freedom … his, mine and my sister’s,” she said. read further News release from Ottawa Police Services June 1

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