Friday, September 29, 2006

This one we grew ourselves

I think this is one of the most horrendous cases of spousal abuse I have ever read. And just our luck - not only is he a Canadian, he’s been deported back to Canada. Taken from the National Post:
A Canadian man who spent six years in a Washington state jail for keeping his wife on a squalid sailboat for years and forcing her to fight with German shepherds for food has been deported to Canada.

By the time police in Everett, Wash., found Linda David stuffed into the bow of the boat amid seven growling dogs in early 1997, she was covered in vomit and feces. She had suffered brain damage and could barely move. Her ears looked like those of a boxer and scars from scrapping with the dogs crisscrossed her face. She weighed 105 pounds.

Her husband -- Victor David, 66, a Canadian citizen -- told social workers his wife had multiple sclerosis, and he had been collecting government cheques as her caregiver.

But there is a little tinsy tiny bit of light on the horizon. He may go and drive an oil tanker in Iraq (that’s the light) but the downside is he wants to take his wife with him.

h/t Jack’s News Watch

No comments: