{"id":778393,"date":"2026-07-03T20:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T20:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/778393\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T20:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T20:58:08","slug":"ontario-couple-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-murder-of-boy-other-serious-crimes-involving-his-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/778393\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario couple sentenced to life in prison for murder of boy, other &#8216;serious crimes&#8217; involving his brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The court will give primary consideration to denouncing and deterring child abuse, Conlan says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no question that L.L. and J.L. were vulnerable persons,&#8221; he says, as Indigenous boys in the foster care system.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He says aggravating factors in this case include that the offenders abused members of their family, abused children and abused their positions of trust and authority.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He lists other aggravating factors, including that L.L. and J.L. were significantly harmed and prevented from accessing medical care.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a highly aggravating case,&#8221; he says, with moral blameworthiness of the offenders &#8220;as high as could possibly be imagined.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The court will give primary consideration to denouncing and deterring child abuse, Conlan says. &#8220;There is no question&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-778393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}