An audience of determining the sentence for a Calgary couple who killed her seriously burned and emaciated toddler was delayed because the judge fell ill.
Sonya Pasqua and Michael Sinclair pleaded guilty to manslaughter guilty in December after Gabriel Sinclair-Pasqua Died in 2021 after suffering major burns to a third of his body.
Judge Glen Poelman told court when the hearing was to start that he had been sick all weekend and that he was not good enough to continue.
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A new hearing date will be set on Friday.
A statement contained in the facts indicates that the 18 -month parents did not seek medical treatment and tried to treat burns with honey before dying of a head infection and trauma.
A pediatric surgeon said that burns would have required emergency medical care and immediate hospitalization.
The court heard that the couple had declared to the officials different versions of the way the boy had been injured, in particular that he had struck his head on the toilet and that he pulled a pot of boiling water from a stove.
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