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A distraught mother is pleading to have her son sent home to Nova Scotia after he was savagely beaten in an Alberta remand centre, an attack that has left him in a medically induced coma from which he may never awake.

Dylan Gogan, 28, was charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault on March 6 after a man was stabbed in Grande Prairie.

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Days later, while being held at Peace River Correctional Centre, three inmates left Gogan bloodied and unconscious after brutally beating and kicking him, his mother, Christine Arsenault, said.

He was found by corrections staff unresponsive in his cell and airlifted to Edmonton.

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Arsenault said her son suffered an axonal brain injury and that he may require around the clock care for the rest of his life.

Had he been covered under the Nova Scotia Health Authority, Gogan may have qualified for an inter-hospital transfer between the University of Alberta hospital in Edmonton to somewhere closer to Arsenault’s home in Amherst, N.S.