Posted on 10/04/2021 2:15:51 PM PDT by jerod
Warning: This story contains disturbing details
The 23-year-old man accused of causing the death of a two-year-old by putting a Ping-Pong ball in the child's mouth has been remanded to a psychiatric hospital for a 30-day assessment.
Madison Bennett, also known as Karrson Bennett, appeared in provincial court on Monday afternoon via a video link from jail.
His lawyer, David Lutz, requested a fitness hearing as well as a 30-day psychiatric assessment.
Judge Andrew LeMesurier said the usual practice is to have a five-day in-jail assessment of fitness and then proceed to the 30-day assessment at the Restigouche Hospital Centre, but given the seriousness of the charges against Bennett, he said the longer process was in order.
Bennett is charged with criminal negligence causing death and breach of probation. The identity of the child is protected by a publication ban.
Lutz confirmed for the judge that Bennett identifies as male, but that he "has not quite transitioned." He said so far, it is only "above the neck."
LeMesurier responded, "It's how you identify, not how you appear."
Saint John police responded to a 911 call on Sept. 18 about an unconscious child at a Saint John residence. The child was eventually airlifted to a children's hospital in Halifax, but died on Sept. 19.
It's not the first time Bennett has been charged with hurting a child.
In 2017, he was charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault of another toddler.
He eventually pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and was sentenced in January 2019 to three years in prison, to be followed by 36 months of supervised probation. With credit for time served, he was sentenced to 18 months.
He admitted to physically abusing the girl on at least five separate occasions.
At the time, the court heard that Bennett suffocated the girl with water, hit her, and held his hand over her face until she turned purple and had to be revived.
On another occasion, he stuffed her into a tiny duffel bag, zipped it up to her neck and threw her in a closet.
Then he went out for a cigarette.
Probation order allows contact with children Under the conditions of his supervised probation, Bennett was ordered to have no contact with the victim's family, abstain from drugs, participate in treatment and counselling, submit a DNA sample, and not own weapons for 10 years.
There was no mention of having no contact with children.
But there's nothing in the Criminal Code that would automatically impose that condition, says Archie Kaiser, a law professor at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University...
I am at a loss for words.
The effects of treating a woman with testosterone.
I bet she still can’t back a car into a parking spot.
Except to say that he is unbalanced and needs to be in prison.
Where he will not, I hope, get the rest of the surgery.
Let him be sexually frustrated for the rest of his life.
Needs a bullet.
It needs a bullet between the eyes as does anyone who supported it.
so much for that motherly instinct...
“has been remanded to a psychiatric hospital for a 30-day assessment. “
has been recommended to test out the new euthanasia drugs.
There, fixed it
OK, what is “IT”? What does the DNA say “IT” is?
was this a relative or the child of this woman who is attempting to change into a man?
Why is this guy still breathing?
It’s a woman pretending to be male.
It is a woman taking testosterone
It’s a female that calls herself a male.
Too fast. Burned alive.
The word “man” in the title should have a “(sic)” after it.
Some animals need to be put down
This guy shouldn't be anywhere near children.
He should have to keep a mile away from schools, and perhaps
even be limited to going out of his home when kids are not
walking to school.
There must be something we're not seeing. I'm sure the
court must have put in place some protections for children.
I would certainly hope so.
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