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Hadn T: Victim and House Child

hadn t: The two accused sat wedged between a translator listening to a victim impact statement read out by a lawyer, according to CBC. London, Ont., boy rescued from 'squalid' house a 'child with resilience' Their now teenaged nephew wrote it about a month ago. The sentencing hearing for the victim aunt and uncle, who were charged two years ago with failing to provide the necessaries of life and forcible confinement, was held Tuesday in London. In it, the victim said he felt bored, nervous, lonely and jealous that he couldn't go outside. The teen wrote he used McDonalds napkins as toilet paper in a jammed-up toilet. The court heard that the boy had likely been locked in a squalid room, he hadn't had a bath in a year and was eating a fast food diet. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.