Stephen Eisenberg

2017-06-24 10:55:17 -0400

Now that he is out awaiting sentencing, does anyone other than the judge believe that he will not skip town and leave the country? Yes, his passport was taken, but since when has that stopped anyone as scummy as him from finding a way into another country?



Even if he just leaves Quebec, it will take years to find him in, say, Toronto or Ottawa where the Muslim communities have been known to “take care of their own”.



At sentencing, will his lawyers invoke the Koran and bring up the passages where it states that Muslims are superior, can take the women of the infidels at will, and that it was his religious right to do what he did?



I remember years ago, in Montreal, a Haitian got off on a rape charge because his lawyer claimed that it was a cultural habit back in Haiti.



There may be backroom politics also going on. The federal Liberals essentially are defending a man who beat his wife for half-an-hour with a hockey stick who used the “I didn’t know you can’t do that in Canada” defence and got a tap on the wrist from the courts. Maybe there may be some influence from outside the court to go easy on this predator.



I’m not holding my breath to see justice properly served.

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