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A mans conviction and eight-year sentence for sexually assaulting his daughter when she was a child has been overturned by the provinces top court because the Crown relied on highly pejorative assumptions about the witnesses culture that were not established in the evidence. The case involves a woman from a Brampton-based Sikh family who accused her father of beating and sexually assaulting her between the ages of six and 14. She made a police report in 2016 when she was 31.During the jury trial in 2019, the womans family, including her mother, aunt, sister, brother, two female family friends and her father testified and all denied her allegations. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW In the Court of Appeal decision released Wednesday, the court concluded the trial was unfair and ordered a new trial, finding that a Crown prosecutor invited the jury to rely on impermissible racial or cultural stereotyping in her cross-examination and closing arguments, including stanley thermoskannen suggesting the arranged marriages of some of the women showed they were controlled by the men in their families, lacked the agency to make their own decisions and were willing to lie to protect family honour 鈥?despite the women explicitly rejecting this as inaccurate.The Crown also repeatedly used the term in your culture when questioning the womans family members, which had the effec stanley mugs t of exotic stanley water bottle izing them in the eyes of the jury, of insinuating that they were not only diffe Ahkm Amendment to Montreal Protocol signed: McKenna
Halton Public Health is reporting 17 new COVID-19 cases on Friday Sept. 17 , down from 24 the previous day.Health officials confirmed nine more cases of COVID-19 in Burlington, six in Milton, and one each in Oakville and Halton Hil stanley quencher ls. This brings the total infections in Halton to 19,171 since the pandemic started, with 18,7 stanley website 70 of those marked as resolved.Of the new cases, about 70 per cent are in people under 40. Many of the new cases are linked to close contacts and community transmission, with some related to travel and outbreaks. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW More COVID-19 cases continued to be reported in schools in Burlington and Milton, as well as Oakville.The number of active COVID-19 cases across the region is 160, while the seven-day average is 26. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW On Thursday, 844 vacci stanley cups ne doses were given in Halton 鈥?with 352 first doses and 492 second doses.To date, 857,203 doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered. So far, 85 per cent of eligible Halton residents have received the first dose 鈥?with 81 per cent fully vaccinated. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Currently, there are five people hospitalized with COVID-19 across Halton hospitals. There are also six people in the intensive care units ICU . The ICU bed occupancy rate is 75 per cent, according to the regions website. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW