Man sentenced for ‘reign of terror’
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BRANDON — A man from western Manitoba is going to jail after conducting a "reign of terror" over his wife and two daughters for years after he suffered a brain injury falling from a roof.
Judge John Combs said Tuesday there’s no doubt there’s a connection between the injury and the man’s "abhorrent" and "sadistic" behaviour.
But the judge rejected defence lawyer Bob Harrison’s request for a conditional sentence — the abuse was too serious for a sentence to be served in the community — and the judge sent the offender to jail instead.
"To suggest he continually abused his family is an understatement," Combs said.
The man was sentenced Monday for a string of abuse that stretched from April 2002 to September 2005 and included sexual assaults against his daughters and a series of brutal beatings of his wife.
His name and the small Westman town where the offences were committed can’t be published because his daughters were youths at the time of the offences.
It was in August 2007 that the daughters and the wife went to RCMP.
The offender pleaded guilty to counts of assault and sexual assault on March 16.
The man was sentenced to 16 months in jail followed by three years’ probation.
He’ll be registered with the national sex offender registry for 20 years.
ihitchen@brandonsun.com