On a rural road near Brantford, Ontario, Darris Wilson slammed his Dodge Ram pickup truck into a small Mitsubishi subcompact car, killing 12-year-old Sierra Beverly and severely injuring her mother, Naomi.
Wilson was originally charged with impaired operation causing death and bodily harm but was eventually convicted of dangerous driving causing death and bodily harm, an offence carrying a sentence of up to 14 years. Yet last month, Justice Gethin Edward, an indigenous judge and member of the Six Nations of the Grand River, sentenced Wilson to two years of house arrest. The Crown had requested at least four years in prison.
