Father of Okanagan boy who died said the justice system has failed his son

A condemnation handed down successful Vernon, B.C., tribunal past week has profoundly angered the begetter of the lad who died.

“How tin you perchance springiness that benignant of a condemnation to the nonaccomplishment of an eight-year aged boy,” said Mackenzie, whose past sanction we are utilizing to support the individuality of his son.

“This isn’t justice, I privation radical to beryllium upset astir this, I privation radical to retrieve my son.”

The Okanagan lad died successful the outpouring of 2020.

His mother, Keisha McCrea, was successful Vernon tribunal connected Thursday connected a complaint of nonaccomplishment to supply the necessities of beingness .

She pleaded not blameworthy and alternatively pleaded blameworthy to battle causing bodily harm, which means she volition not service immoderate jailhouse time.

McCrea and her fellow Brian Chcuik were the sole caregivers of the lad and lived successful Lumby astatine the time.

Chuick was besides primitively charged with nonaccomplishment to supply the necessities of beingness  but the charges were stayed by Crown.

“People charged with acold lesser crimes get acold harsher sentences and this is conscionable wrong,” Mackenzie said.

Court heard of respective incidents involving the kid including 1 connected April 4, 2020, when  the lad was pushed extracurricular aft soiling himself.

He deed his caput and had to beryllium air-ambulanced  to Kelowna General Hospital, wherever helium died the adjacent day.

His begetter says his son’s decease is simply a wide lawsuit of abuse.

“What’s the different cause? Give maine different crushed why,” Mackenzie said arsenic to wherefore his lad died the time aft being pushed outside.  “That’s not capable grounds for anybody to prosecute thing more?”

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In a connection to Global News the BC Prosecution Service stated that, “court acceded to the associated sentencing submission of Crown Counsel and defence counsel and imposed a 12-month conditional condemnation order, which includes a information of location apprehension and assorted different conditions, including a request to execute 80 hours of assemblage enactment work by July 31, 2025.”

The boy’s begetter is calling connected changes to the justness strategy truthful that nary different household has to endure this benignant of tragic outcome.

“I privation change. I privation justice. I don’t privation different kids to suffer. I don’t privation different families to deliberation they tin bash these kinds of things and get distant with it,” helium said.

Mackenzie remembered his lad arsenic an imaginative, bully and shy kid — 1 helium can’t judge he’ll ne'er spot again.

“I aftermath up each time and dread the thought. I spell to slumber each nighttime reasoning astir him,” helium said.