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Guilty mom seeks return of children; Kitchener - Waterloo Record. Kitchener, Ont.: May 5, 1993. pg. C.10
(CP) - A Jamaican woman sentenced to more than eight years in jail for severely abusing three children is trying to regain custody of them, while also battling to stay in Canada, her lawyer says.
The woman, 32, was convicted in nearby Brampton in January 1991 on four counts of assault, including assaulting a Peel regional police officer.
Her lawyer, Munyonzwe Hamalengwa, said his client is rehabilitated, has "learned her lesson" and is fighting the Children's Aid Society for custody of the children.
Meanwhile, the federal government is taking steps to deport the woman because of her criminal activities, said Paul Hardy, a spokesman for the Immigration and Refugee Board.
She is to appear before a panel of board members in Kingston next Tuesday, Hardy said.
The charges stemmed from abuse of three children, aged six, seven and nine at the time. She is the mother of one and great-aunt of the other two and she was their legal guardian.
Court records show one child was burned more than 20 times with cigarettes, another was beaten with a telephone cord and another was pushed down a flight of stairs.
One child suffered a fractured rib, nose and skull during a beating.
"This was the worst child-abuse case I've ever dealt with," said Const. Dave Lavergne, who investigated the case in 1989.
Lavergne was cut in the cheek when the woman punched him while he was escorting her.
Before sentencing her in 1991, Provincial Court Judge Garth Moore described the woman as having a "total lack of motherhood abilities.
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