Canada with it’s strict gun control laws – The BG possessed an “illegal weapon’”. Criminals by definitions do NOT obey laws! Gun control only turns law abiding citizens into UNARMED VICTIMS! The BG holds a gun to a woman and baby’s head and they want to “rehabilitate” this SOB!?!?!?!?! When are the “let’s make every law abiding citizen an unarmed victim’ crowd going to quit blaming inanimate objects and start holding the individuals (aka: BG) responsible ?!?!?!?!?

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PUBLICATION: Windsor Star
DATE: 2003.12.11
EDITION: Final
SECTION: LOCAL NEWS
PAGE: A2
BYLINE: Ellen van Wageningen Star Justice Reporter
SOURCE: Windsor Star

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Home invasion penalty argued

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Jonathon Casey should be sentenced to eight years in jail for the gunpoint robbery of a young woman with her baby in their home, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

“This offender must understand that when he gets out of jail, if he continues to commit crimes of this type, he will go back to jail for a very long time,” said assistant Crown attorney Craig Houle.

But Casey’s lawyer, Kirk Munroe, told Superior Court Justice Terry Patterson that the 21-year-old Windsor man should be given a five-year sentence to allow for rehabilitation.

“You can warehouse Jonathon Casey, but he is a young man. He will come back on the street some day,” Munroe said.

At the end of a trial in October, Patterson concluded Casey robbed Charlene Knapp while pointing a loaded sawed-off semi-automatic shotgun at her and her baby daughter.

He also found Casey guilty of wearing a face mask while committing the holdup and possessing a prohibited weapon.

Freedom stolen

Casey pleaded guilty to possessing jewelry, electronics and cameras from Knapp’s George Avenue home. He claimed he found three bags containing the stolen goods on a nearby railway track the night of the robbery.

Knapp, 24, who testified at Casey’s trial, moved to another province with her two-year-old after the robbery and wasn’t in court Wednesday.

“I wasn’t just robbed of my possessions. I was robbed of my security, freedom and peace of mind,” she wrote in a statement read by Houle.

She suffers from depression, anxiety and a panic disorder since the robbery, she wrote. She has trouble sleeping because when she closes her eyes she sees Casey and hears her daughter’s screams.

Her daughter is “extremely clingy and hides from strangers,” she said.

Patterson said he will sentence Casey on Friday.