{"id":943519,"date":"2026-10-23T17:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T17:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/943519\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T17:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T17:52:08","slug":"a-punching-bag-quebec-woman-who-beat-4-year-old-boy-to-death-gives-tearful-testimony-in-bid-for-early-parole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/943519\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A punching bag&#8217;: Quebec woman who beat 4-year-old boy to death gives tearful testimony in bid for early parole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A woman serving a life sentence for murdering a four-year-old boy in Montreal nearly 18 years ago broke down and wept several times Friday during a hearing where she is asking a jury to be able to ask for early parole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI treated him like a punching bag,\u201d St\u00e9phanie Meunier, 47, said through tears as she described the days before she killed J\u00e9r\u00e9my Bastien-Perron on Dec. 6, 2008.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meunier stood before the witness stand with her hair tied up in a tight bun. She appears to be at least twice the weight she was when she was arrested in 2008 by Montreal police and her mug shot was taken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman serving a life sentence for murdering a four-year-old boy in Montreal nearly 18 years ago broke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,222407,2338,227708],"class_list":["post-943519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-crime-and-law","tag-montreal","tag-murder-and-homicide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943519","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=943519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}