Seeing a weak old man sentenced to 6 and a half years in prison due to unintentionally killing on the death of Paulin Brazo, who is 16 years old, may not have done much time to rid relatives of sadness for nearly 50 years
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“Close” is a word often used in a criminal justice system.
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This is what lawyers, judges, police officers and others who work within the system seek to achieve at the end of the day when a criminal case is finally resolved.
But it can also be hollow for many people who are forced to endure tragic events that often lead to criminal trials and judicial penalties at the end of the perpetrators.
Certainly for some, seeing the person who harmed, or even killing a member of his dear family who brought justice can bring some ultimate feeling to the victims who left behind mourning.
However, the hope for many is that seeing the perpetrator who was transferred by the mayor of the court hall to start submitting the prolonged prison terms will end their grief often a false mistake.
Last week, justice was finally acquired on the killer Ronald James Edwards, which is nearly half a century after he was repeatedly stabbed or young as a maid on an abandoned rural road west of the city after they participated in sex by mutual consent.
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But seeing a weak old man who is sentenced to 6 years in prison for unintentional murder on the death of 16 -year -old Paulin Brazo, may not have done much to work much to rid relatives of sadness for nearly 50 years.
Among the family members who mobilized Calgary’s court in the King Bilsh Court for Edwards’s admission of guilt, Tris was the daughter of Brazio, Trisi, and she is now a middle -aged woman who was months old when her mother was incomprehensible and brutally.
“Close, what does this mean?” She said, when she was asked to make a victim’s impact statement on the pronunciation session of the man who killed the mother who never knew her.
“There are no memories, nothing shared between them and me. Don’t laugh, don’t smile.”
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For his part, Edwards, who is now 75 years old, pledged that he was no longer the “drowned young man” who stabbed Brazo nine times in the early morning from January 9, 1976, after he had sex after he met her in the belt line and went to an area along the pound to the west of Calgary.
I apologize for the pain and suffering that caused it not only for those who have survived enough to see justice, but many people who have never learned from the teenager’s death.
Edwards said, “There was a time when I could not say this,” Edwards said.
“I was a drunk young man.”
After years of killing, and found himself in prison for another brutal crime, Edwards said he was adult and began to rehabilitate his life.
He told “the court hall”: “I no longer hate the man who looks at me in the mirror.”
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According to the recognized facts, Patrick Big Prosecutor Robert Armstrong played a big role in killing Brazio to Edwards.
“The accused admits that he was … drunk that night and does not remember many details about what happened,” said Big, from an exhibition signed by the perpetrator and his lawyers.
This cannot provide consolation to Brazo loved ones, who have waited for five decades to find out the reason for her life unnecessarily and such a tooth.
To learn some of the “drunk young man” killing the teenager for unknown reasons that will not create any feelings of closure in it.
According to the facts, Edwards believed that Brazo was a sexual trade factor (it was not).
But perhaps this wrong belief was his motive for his deadly attack.
Nearly 14 years after Brazo’s death, Edwards was sentenced to 10 years in prison for brutal sexual assault and tried to kill a prostitute.
That victim was able to fight, and she could save her life.
The young Paulin Brazo has never got this opportunity, and her family left for mourning because of him.
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