Justice System Sucks

I cant believe how much our justice system sucks..You sit there and wonder why so many young kids are doing crime these days...they get a slap on the wrist no matter what kind of a crime they have commited and it just makes me sick..I think if they want to do an ADULT CRIME they should be able to do an ADULT SENTENCE.

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The grieving mother of slain teenager Chantele Fetterly told a judge it seemed like only yesterday she held her dying daughter and told her she loved her.

But in fact a year and a day had passed since a 16-year-old boy from their Oriole Crescent housing complex thrust a knife into the chest of Chantele, also 16, severing her aorta and causing her death.

"I love my beautiful girl and she is never coming home," cried Sandra Fetterly Brown. "I'm still in a state of shock, knowing that I will never see or touch or hear her voice again. The pain is too deep to imagine."

The accused, who spent a year in pre-trial custody at the Arrell Youth Centre, originally faced a charge of second-degree murder.

But he pleaded guilty in June to manslaughter and was sentenced yesterday by Superior Court Justice Stephen Glithero to two years, four months and 20 days in custody.

His jail term will be followed by seven months, 10 days of supervision in the community.

The youth must return to court in 2010 when Glithero will set out the terms and conditions of his community supervision order.

Under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, the maximum sentence for manslaughter is three years. Defence lawyer Dean Paquette noted his client will have served three and a half years after taking his pretrial custody into consideration.

The youth was suspended from school and in trouble with the law at the time he killed Chantele.

The month before the stabbing, he stole a bait car planted by Hamilton police. Chantele's mother, who had taken her daughter's friend into their home in the past, helped bail the youth out of jail. A short time later, however, he was arrested on two counts of robbery. This time, it was his dad who signed as surety to get him out of jail. Within days, however, the youth was refusing to comply with the terms of his release and had run away from home.

Just after midnight on July 3, 2007, an argument broke out between Chantele and the boy she had once briefly dated.

Witnesses at the preliminary hearing in the case said Chantele had a knife and went after the accused, threatening to cut him.

Three times she provoked him and each time the tall, lanky youth easily overpowered her and threw her to the ground.

At one point, said witnesses, the accused walked away from the parking lot altercation and ducked into the townhome of a friend. There, he armed himself with a kitchen knife.

Chantele gave up her aggressive pursuit of him and walked back to her own front doorstep. The youth then stepped out of the next-door unit and in a sudden sweeping motion of his arm, thrust the blade into Chantele's chest.

He then struck her in the back with the butt of the knife and his fist.

Assistant Crown attorney Stan Dudzic said the plea agreement and sentence worked out by the Crown and defence was based on evidence heard at the preliminary hearing and followed discussions with Chantele's mother.

The youth will serve his sentence in the Intensive Rehabilitation, Custody and Supervision program. The regimen is reserved for the country's most violent young offenders and offers one-on-one counselling in anger management, victim sensitivity, emotional and psychological counselling, along with academic studies and social skills.

I agree the justice system sucks also. But I'd be more sympathetic if she hadn't gone after him with a knife first.

true never know with some of these kids these days they are terrible, but no one deserved to die...how much you wanna bet when they catch the guy who punched this kid and ran over his friend will also get a slap on the wrist? this just happened just alittle while ago

A mother's plea

'Turn yourself in,' she says to men in silver car that dragged her son

Watch video footage of Nick's parents at police press conference.

The family of a Hamilton teenager maimed when a car dragged him more than half a kilometre is begging the suspects to turn themselves in.

"Picture what my son went through underneath your car," distraught elementary school teacher Nicki Perkins, 52, said yesterday.

"Flesh being burned away to the bone, the pain he's in right now -- what if that was your child?

"Turn yourself in, do the right thing."

Nick Perkins, 17, was cycling home to upper Stoney Creek towing a close friend on a skateboard around 3:40 a.m. Thursday when a horrifying sequence of events unfolded.

Nick fell off his bicycle and landed in the middle of Mount Albion Road at Hixon Road. A silver sedan heading north crested railway tracks, ran over Nick and stopped.

Two men got out and approached Nick's friend Dominic. Nicki Perkins said they punched the boy in the face, breaking his nose, and tried to kick him in the head.

"They hit his friend and took his bag, and took off in the car, knowing, I believe, Nick was under the car," she said tearfully.

"They just dragged him like an animal.

"The whole hip, it's missing, it's gone."

Physicians told the family that Nick's left hip and leg looked almost like a shark bite.

The back of the teen's head has been scraped down to bare skull, and the back of his hands severely injured.

Stepfather George McGee said the boys had missed their bus and were on their way to Dominic's home. Nick, a Mountain Secondary student who had just finished Grade 11, planned to stay the night. The two friends had cycled the route many times, McGee said.

After being punched, Dominic hid briefly , fearing the two men were about to kill him, then jumped on Nick's bike and chased after them, Nicki Perkins said.

Six hundred metres away, on Lawrence Road near Parkdale Avenue South, Dominic found Nick in a pool of blood on the roadway, police said.

Dominic found a cellphone in Nick's pocket and called 911.

Nick did not suffer internal injuries or brain trauma but remains in intensive care in a medically induced coma.

Doctors brought him to consciousness long enough to get him to wiggle his toes. He has since been put back in a medically induced coma because the pain is too intense for him to bear, his mother said.

"If you are the driver or the party that was involved in this incident, come forward to the police and do the right thing," said Hamilton police Staff Sergeant Glenn Jarvie.

Investigators are looking for a silver 2000 to 2003 four-door sedan. They say it will have damage to its undercarriage.

these kids are way outta control if they would get a stronger punishment i think it would solve most of the crime out in this world

Now that's just revolting. Those people should have to go thru the same pain they put that poor kid thru.

Now that's just revolting. Those people should have to go thru the same pain they put that poor kid thru.

i cant believe they still havent turned themselves in and i cant believe someone came on facebook posted that they knew the person that might of done this to this poor kid and that they are scared to come forward about the information...ARGH!!!!

here is the facebook page so to anyone who has facebook can go and read it

stay strong nice

this world today is disgusting me each day that goes by..I cant believe how cruel this world has become...people wanting to hurt people in the worse way of it all

here is something that just happened a couple of blocks from me and it scares me to send my child out because of everything happening around us..no matter what a person does no one should go through any of these tortures that they go through from these animals

Man's 'torture' drug related, say police

July 14, 2008
By Paul Morse
The Hamilton Spectator

A 25-year-old man is in hospital with serious injuries after a brutal beating police say is linked to drugs.

Night staff at a convenience store at the corner of Ottawa and Main streets were startled when the bloodied man entered asking for help around 3:45 a.m. Monday.

?Our night clerk told me the guy?s lip was hanging off, and there were footprints all over his body,? said an assistant manager at the 7-Eleven, who did not want her named used.

?He said the man?s fingers looked like they were busted,? she said.

Police say they are ?cautiously investigating? claims by the man that he had been abducted 14 hours earlier and badly beaten before being dumped by his captors.

?There is more to this than meets the eye,? said Hamilton police media officer Sergeant Terri-Lynn Collings Mondayafternoon.

She said investigators have determined that the attack on the man was not random.

?He was targeted and there were drugs involved,? she said, but that detectives were now questioning his claims of kidnapping and captivity.

The victim told police he was snatched at Barton and Ottawa streets around 1:30 p.m. Sunday and taken to an unknown location where he was held and assaulted numerous times.

He also said his attackers dumped him off in a field near Delta Secondary School from where he made his way to the variety store.

The man was taken to Hamilton General Hospital with burns on his body, broken facial bones and head lacerations, she said. Police are not sure all his injuries, which are not life-threatening, occurred during the attack, Collings said.

Anyone with information can call the east-end detectives bureau at 905-546-2907 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.