Face of Nation : A man will serve almost 13 years in prison for attempting to kill the family members of a girl he sexually abused years before.
In December of 2018, just days before Christmas, Alexander Bates bound the girl’s father and grandmother with zip ties in their basement home and beat them with an aluminum baseball bat. Bates, 47, attempted to escape by hopping a backyard fence, but police found and shot him, leaving him paraplegic.
The Crown wanted a sentence of 15 years, but the judge said his paraplegic state would make jail “harder on him” and ordered a lesser sentence. On Monday, Bates was sentenced to 13 years on two counts of attempted murder. Due to time in custody, he will serve 12 years, two months, and three weeks in prison. In their victim impact statements, the family described their trauma.
“Never before have I felt such horrifying terror,” said the girl’s grandmother, who added that she now has “ongoing nightmares.” The girl’s father said “I was left for dead. These night terrors haunt me now in my sleep.” Since then, the father said he has suffered from an aneurysm, which doctors say was due to head trauma from the attack.
