# Canadian Criminal Sentencing/Cases/Aggravated Assault
## Generally

| Case | Citation | Sentence | Summary |
| R. v Moller | 2012 ABCA 381 (CanLII) | 4 years | beat victim with beer bottle |
| R. v. Barnsdale | 2012 MBCA 56 | 2 years | beat good friend in head with a shovel multiple times, caused crippling brain damage |
| R. v. Knott | 2020 MBQB 105 | Suspended | was party to a beating |
| R. v. Best | 2019 NSCA 34 | 3 years | aggravated assault and break and enter |
| R. v. Neshinapaise, | 2023 ONCJ 82 | 2.5 years | Caused severe brain damage |
| R. v. Merceica, | 2020 BCPC 379 | 3 years | aggravated assault; throw hot liquid at someone in correctional facility. |
| R. v. Cox, | 2018 NLTD 127 | 12 months | hit broke ribs, punctured one lung |
| Ahmad Ali Ali, | 2021 MBCA 14 | 9 months | aggravated assault; broken jaw |
| R. v. MacDonald | 2020 NSSC 281 | 12 months | permanent minor nerve damage |
| R. v. Cador, | 2019 ABCA 379 | | |
| R. v. C.R.D. | 2023 ABCA 128 | 90 days inter. | breaking son's leg |
| R. v. Sayazie | 2019 SKCA 14 | 3 years | spousal beating, caused permanent muscle damage; no record |
| R. v. Lambert | 2020 NBQB 101 | 4.5 years | |
| R. v. Ward | 2020 BCCA 556 | 7 years | serious permanent damage to brain and body |
| R. v. Gaudet, | 2020 NSPC 54 | 9 months with probation | |
| R. v. Boachie, | 2023 ONCA 342 | 23 mo (268) and 1 year (firearm)after 61 mo remand | 19 year threatened 12 year old boy with handgun to head; extensive youth record |
| R. v. Menard | 2016 BCCA 522 | 8 months | strike to head with wooden and metal objects |
| R. v. Sooch | 2023 ABPC 260 | 4 years | 23 year old; strangulation of girlfriend |
| R. v. Payne | 2023 BCCA 541 | 8 years | extortion; struck with axe on head and hand |
| R. v. J. A., | 2023 BCPC 625 | 2 years less a day CSO | |
| R. v. Ruksys | 2023 ABCA 270 | 15 months | struck in the head, neck and arm until unconscious. Life threatening injuries. |
| R v. Armstrong | [2019] B.C.J. No. 1667 (S.C.) | 8 years | assaulted two probation officers with a bat causing significant injuries; mental health history; |
| R.V.Morash | 2005 skca | 9 years | aggravated assault, assault with a weapon, break in enter- rendered victim unconcious and them brutally stomped head. Permanent brain damage. |
| R. v. Craig | 2005 BCCA 484 | 2 years less a day | maiming |
| R. v. Ervin, | 2003 ABCA 179 | | |
| R. v. Gates | 2002 BCCA 128 | | broken arm, a head wound requiring 18 stitches, split lip, black eyes, cigarette burns and bruises |
| R. v. Hulshof | 2001 BCCA 308 | 4 years | robbery with knife; multiple cuts to face |
| R. v. Gagliardi | 2000 ABCA 137 | | |
| R v. Tusek | [1999] O.J. No. 3413 (C.A.) | 4 years | stabbing customer in restaurant; age 19; no record |
| R. v. Chisholm | 1998 CanLII 2740 (NS C.A.) | 6 months imprisonment | aggravated assault; drunken bar fight |
| R. v. Rasanen | 1997 CanLII 3368 (BC C.A.) | 6 years | premeditated attack; bragged to friends about it. |

### Child victim

| Case | Citation | Sentence | Summary |
| R. v. Nickel | 2012 ABCA 158 | 3 years | put 9 month old's feet in boiling water |
| R. v. S.(M.J.)\ | 2006 ABCA 176 | 2 years less a day | |

### Stabbing

| Case | Citation | Sentence | Summary |
| R. v. J.R. | 2012 BCPC 240 | 4 years | stabbing with knife in head, unprovoked |
| R. v. Sharma | 2012 BCPC 176 | 4 years | |
| R v Wilson | 2012 ONCA 372 | 4 years | offender and co-accused stabbed vicctim 3 times in the back for an unpaid drug debt. |
| R. v. Haly | 2012 ONSC 2302 | 36 months | |
| R. v. Makhniashvili | 2011 ONCJ 772 | 6 years | aggravated assault; two incidents of stabbing family members in abdomen |
| R. v. Wheeler | 2011 CanLII 69366 (NL PC) | 4 years | stabbing in face |
| R. v. Ashley | 2008 NSPC 11 | 2 years less a day CSO | aggravated assault; stabbing twice with a knife |
| R. v. Morgan | 2008 NWTCA 12 | 3.5 years | 3 stabs to the head |
| R. v. Craig | [2005] B.C.J. No. 2180 (C.A.) | 2-3 years | stabbed ex-partner in abdomen |
| R. v. Taghiev | [2004] O.J. No.5519 (S.C.J.) | 2 years less a day | stabbed acquiantence in back over dispute; positive background |
| R. v. Belisario | 2002 BCCA 208 | 15 months | stabbing; no record |
| R v. Deesasan | [1996] O.J. No. 489 | 12 months | stabbing in bus; victim in hospital |
| R. v. Wu | [1994] N.B.J. No.96 (C.A.) | 9 years | retribution stabbing of sleeping victim; injuries in multiple regions of body; no record |
| R. v. Khan | [1991] O.J. No. 1025 (C.A.) | 8 years | unprovoked stabbing of stranger in subway; mental health issue; dated prior related record |

### Beating

| Case | Citation | Sentence | Summary |
| R. v. Johnson | 2012 CanLII 42709 (NL PC) | 23 months | serious beating, broken limbs |
| R. v. Saraj | 2012 ONSC 4339 | 3 years | beat a taxi driver with a pipe and fists |
| R v Elson | 2012 ABPC 88 | 30 months | offender beat victim to unconsciousness |
| R. v. DeSilva | [2010] O.J. No. 4862 (S.C.J.) | 2 years less a day | beating victim with a cane causing broken bones; victim was accused of sexually assaulting offender's daughter |
| R. v. McCowan | 2010 MBCA 45 | 5.5 years | punches to face causing permanent disability |
| R. v. Desjarlais | 2009 MBPC 45 | 2 years | hit with multi-tool causing lacerations to forehead, eyelid and leg all requiring sutures |
| R. v. Sidhu | 2005 BCCA 178 | 3 years | punch and stomp to head after unconscious |
| R. v. Irwin | 2004 BCCA 433 | 4 years | kick him and stomp victim into unconsciousness |
| R. v. Moroz | 2003 ABPC 5 | 12 months CSO | struck on the head at least six times with a ball-peen hammer. Significant consumption of cocaine. |
| R. v. Hiscock | 2002 BCSC 1772 | 8 years | victim beaten by gang, put in vegetative state. |
| R. v. Dunn | 2002 CanLII 53265 (ON C.A.) | 9 years | attack until unconscious; long record of violence |
| R. v. D.L. | [2002] B.C.J. No. 1987 (SC) | 6 to 7 years | random beating |
| R. v. MacLeod | 1999 BCCA 420 | 3 years | brutal beating and sexual assault |

### Shooting

| Case | Citation | Sentence | Summary |
| R. v. Michael Larmond | 2011 ONSC 7170 | 7 years | accused shoots victim while collecting a drug debt |

### Infection

| Case | Citation | Sentence | Summary |
| R. v. Phelan | 2012 CanLII 36207 (NL SCTD) | 30 months | infected victim with HIV |

## See Also

* Canadian Criminal Sentencing/Cases/Homicide for attempted murder