The Crown sought to introduce evidence of similar facts regarding the defendant's pattern of corporal discipline against his daughters.
The defendant was charged with assault and assault with a weapon against his daughter Médijean, allegedly occurring between January 1, 2008 and March 29, 2016.
The Crown sought to introduce testimony from the defendant's other daughter, Amivi, regarding similar beatings she experienced in Ghana before the family immigrated to Canada.
The court applied the test from R. v. Handy to determine admissibility of similar fact evidence and found that the probative value of the evidence outweighed its prejudicial effect, particularly given that the trial was before a judge alone rather than a jury.
