73-year-old man gets probation for elder abuse
By TONY BLAIS, COURT BUREAU
24th September 2009
A 73-year-old former Edmonton man convicted of tying his mother to a chair and threatening to throw her off a balcony was today placed on 12 months probation.
However, the judge in the case told the wheelchair-bound Clifford Morin if he had been younger, healthier or without reasons for his behaviour toward his now-deceased mother, he would have sent him off to a penitentiary.
“I would not have had the slightest hesitation in sending you to jail,” said Justice Jack Watson, noting the elderly members of society must be protected by the law.
Watson called it a “very difficult” and “tragic” case and said he accepted that Morin’s criminal behaviour was the result of him being stressed due to being “overwhelmed” by having to care for both himself and his mother.
Abridged
SOURCE: The Edmonton Sun
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