Ontario father gets 10 years in prison -Pleaded guilty in son’s death

An Ontario father who lost his temper and hit his toddler so hard the child died of his injuries has been sentenced to ten years in prison in a case a judge called “tragic from every angle.”

Mario Wint pleaded guilty to manslaughter in April after originally being charged with second-degree murder in the January 2015 death of his two-year-old son, Ty.

“The killing of Ty Wint is tragic from every angle and I suspect will confound us all as we try to reconcile the emotion it inspires,” said Justice Nyron Dwyer as he delivered Wint’s sentence in a Newmarket, Ont.,courtroom. “The offence in this case is serious and strikes at the trust we as a community place in parents to care for their children,” he said.

Crown and defence lawyers had jointly suggested a ten-year prison sentence for Wint, but the Crown also requested a delay in parole eligibility for the 30-year-old to one half of his sentence, rather than one third.

Judge Dwyer, however, did not see the need for delayed parole eligibility. He also gave Wint a two-year credit for time already spent in custody, leaving the man with eight years left in his sentence.

On the morning of January 22, 2015, Wint lost his temper and hit Ty more than once in the abdomen “with significant force,” causing devastating internal injuries that subsequently caused the child’s death, according to an agreed statement of facts submitted in the case.

“After striking Ty, Mario Wint knew that he had caused serious injury to his son. He delayed calling 911 for several hours out of fear that what he had done would be discovered,” the statement of facts said. “After he was struck by his father, Ty was bleeding extensively internally, and had a rapidly declining level of consciousness. His dire medical state became obvious.”

Court heard that after hitting Ty, Wint refused to take his son to a medical clinic at the suggestion of his own mother, who noticed her grandson looking unwell during a late-morning visit to her home. When he called 911, hours later at his own home, first responders found the boy with no vital signs.

An autopsy revealed “extensive” blunt force injuries to Ty’s chest and abdomen, severe internal bleeding and bruises on the boy’s head as well, court heard.