Sep 7, 2010
IN PROVINCIAL COURT THIS MORNING...THE CROWN HAS REVEALED THAT AN "EXTENSIVE UNDERCOVER OPERATION" WAS MOUNTED, TO GATHER EVIDENCE IN THE SUSPECTED ASSAULT OF AN INFANT IN FOSTER CARE. PROSECUTOR NILS JENSEN LAID OUT THE STORY IN HIS OPENING REMARKS AT THE AGGRAVATED ASSAUILT TRIAL OF AVTAR BASI. BASI IS ACCUSED OF SHAKING AND CAUSING CATASTROPHIC BRAIN INJURIES TO AN ELEVEN WEEK OLD BABY, IN THE CARE OF HIS COMMON-LAW WIFE, WHO RAN A LICENCED DAY CARE IN CENTRAL SAANICH. IN THE SPRING OF LAST YEAR, ABOUT SIX MONTHS AFTER THE INCIDENT, BASI AND THE WOMAN WERE BEFRIENDED BY TWO UNDERCOVER OPERATIVES, POSING AS ANOTHER COMMON-LAW COUPLE. BY JUNE THEY HAD OBTAINED WHAT THE CROWN LABELS A "TEARFUL" ADMISSION OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES. DEFENCE LAWYER JOHN GREEN SAYS HE WILL PRESENT EVIDENCE CHALLENGING THAT INTERPRETATION, AS WELL AS MEDICAL EVIDENCE CHALLENGING THE PREVAILING WISDOM CONCERNING "SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME". HE SAYS THERE HAS BEEN DISAGREEMENT AMONG DOCTORS IN RECENT YEARS ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF FORCE REQUIRED TO CAUSE SUCH INJURIES, AND WILL ARGUE THERE WAS NO CRIMINAL INTENT IN THIS CASE. THE COURT WILL HEAR SIGNIFICANT MEDICAL EVIDENCE OVER THE COURSE OF WHAT IS EXPECTED TO BE AT LEAST A THREE WEEK TRIAL.
http://www.cfax1070.com/newsstory.php?newsId=15077
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