Former Christian Centre Academy director John Olubobokun is interesting his sentence and a few of his earlier convictions involving the bodily self-discipline of scholars within the early to mid-2000s.
In July, Olubobokun was discovered responsible of 9 counts of assault with a weapon for paddling college students on the Non-public Christian Faculty in Saskatoon, which has since modified names to Legacy and now Valour Academy.
He pleaded responsible to a different 5 counts in December.
He was initially given an 18-month conditional sentence to be served in the neighborhood and had one other 5 months tacked on after his plea in December.
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His lawyer, Ron Piché, says they’re now interesting the July conviction as a result of perception that the choose was selective on which testimonies had weight. He says Olubobokun was punished for corporal self-discipline handed out earlier than it was banned in Canada in 2004.
“We take the view that the courtroom didn’t correctly weigh the truth that there was clearly a coverage on the faculty that permitted any such corporal punishment.” Piché mentioned, including, “In our view, the choose was pretty selective in the best way she seen Mr. Olubobokun’s proof, the truth is defence proof usually, whereas the identical scrutiny, if I can put it that manner, was not utilized to the Crown witnesses.”
He went on saying mother and father consented to any such punishment on the time. “We’re additionally suggesting that the courtroom didn’t weigh considerably the truth that the mother and father consented to any such self-discipline.”
Whereas Olubobokun did apologize for the impacts of his actions in his December sentencing, that’s now being appealed, with Piché arguing for a conditional discharge that might hold the fees off his legal file.
The enchantment will probably be heard within the subsequent few months, with submissions from each the Crown and defence anticipated by spring.
Look ahead to extra on the Olubobokun trial and what Piché needs reconsidered.
