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Parents who are still not allowed to publicly speak about their murdered children are being re-traumatised .
That s according to Kathleen Chada, whose sons Eoghan and Ruairí were murdered by their father Sanjeev Chada in 2013.
The Children s Act was amended yesterday and a ban on identifying child victims of violent crime was lifted.
It will also permit the media to name people accused of killing those aged under 18, and permit parents to speak publicly about their murdered children.
However, there are several cases subject to separate legal orders that prevent parents from speaking freely.
Kathleen was not able to speak about her children in the media until the amendment to the legislation came into effect yesterday.
VANCOUVER One of B.C’s most notorious child-killers, Shane Ertmoed, has been granted escorted leaves from his minimum security prison. Ertmoed is serving a life sentence for the murder of Heather Thomas, who was just 10 years old when she was abducted from the front of her father’s townhouse complex in Cloverdale in the year 2000. According to his confession, Ertmoed tried to sexually assault Heather, but she struggled. He then strangled her with his hands. Thomas’ disappearance sparked a major search effort involving hundreds of community volunteers. Her body was discovered weeks later in Alouette Lake in Golden Ears Provincial Park.
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The inmate is 84 and was hospitalized with COVID-19 last year. He’s showing signs of early-onset dementia. He’s kept a clean disciplinary record for more than half of the nearly 50 years he’s been in prison.
He saw the prospect of freedom several years ago when a state panel of judges granted him parole, but a technicality kept him locked behind bars.
A team of advocates and lawyers have tried for months to convince Gov. Phil Murphy through a back channel to use his executive power to let him spend what may be his final days at home with one of his daughters, but they said the front office has stopped responding to their entreaties.
The inmate is 84 and was hospitalized with COVID-19 last year. He’s showing signs of early-onset dementia. He’s kept a clean disciplinary record for more than half of the nearly 50 years he’s been in prison.
He saw the prospect of freedom several years ago when a state panel of judges granted him parole, but a technicality kept him locked behind bars.
A team of advocates and lawyers have tried for months to convince Gov. Phil Murphy through a backchannel to use his executive power to let him spend what may be his final days at home with one of his daughters, but they said the front office has stopped responding to their entreaties.
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