At left, two-day old Ingrid in the arms of her adoring mother Rebecca with father nearby at a Florida hospital. Parental bliss until police from the Miccosukee Tribe arrived and took the child away. Rebecca is a Miccosukee, her husband white, and Rebecca’s mother is alleged to have trumped up a story because she did not want a white man for a son-in-law. They say that this obscene matter is being sorted out and the infant will be returned to its parents. Centre is a forlorn Samantha Estey, 22, of New Brunswick, deeply regretting a naked picture she took and sent to someone in a private message when she was 17. Five years later it has appeared with similar pictures of other women on a website on a server in Russia. There is no lesson more difficult it would seem. Finally at right, Vanessa Biron, 10, of the Montreal suburb of Longueuil, was mauled by a pit bull-type dog in 2015 and left with permanent facial and cranial damage. Friday, a court sentenced the dog’s owner, Karim Jean-Gilles, to four years in prison for the attack. The judge concluded that Jean-Gilles knew his dogs were dangerous and did nothing to control them. His honour added a year to the Crown’s proposed sentence of three years.
