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Kent Owen Hill walked out of court a free man on Monday after pleading guilty to manslaughter and being sentenced to time served in the death of Tashina General and her unborn child.

In a fit of rage in January 2008, Hill, also known as Kent Squire-Hill, put his hands around the throat of 21-year-old General, strangling her to death outside his family home in Ohsweken, just south of Brantford, Ontario. She was about four months pregnant with his child.

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He buried her in a shallow grave in bush area off Chiefswood Road, near Indian Line.

Gathered in the cold outside Superior Court, members of General’s family said the sentence didn’t reflect the severity of the crime.

He committed the murder of two people, of his own son

“He’s still a coward to me,” said Tashina’s grandmother, Norma General.

“He committed the murder of two people, of his own son.”

“He never went for help,” said another family member who didn’t want to be identified. “He didn’t phone anybody. He hid it for three months and put the family through extra torture.”