A sentence could be handed down Wednesday for the final man who admitted to abusing children in a small Manitoba town. The Old Order Mennonite man was one of five charged in an investigation involving dozens of children abused in a horse-and-buggy community between 2011 and 2013. The Crown is asking for a federal prison sentence for him.
The man pleaded guilty to one count of assault and seven counts of assault with a weapon. Court hearings had described him as the “main actor” in the abuse. Court documents also said he conceived the idea of using cattle prods on the children.
Two sentenced men received jail time of six months to a year. Another, who was sentenced in late June, received a year and a half behind bars while a woman was handed three years probation for her role in abusing girls with a cattle prod and hitting one with a strap.
Social workers took 42 children from 10 families into their custody after the abuse was discovered.
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