The family of Susan Chen, a nurse who worked at the Hospital for Sick Children, sat in a Toronto courtroom Friday as a judge sentenced Chen’s husband and father to the couple’s five children, 58-year-old Mansour Jalali, to 10 years in prison.
Jalali, who was self-represented except for the help of an amicus, had a number of loud outbursts during the hearing.
At one point, the 58-year-old yelled out the children’s names asking them to come visit him in jail, contravening a court order that he have no contact with the kids. Jalali also professed his innocence a number of times and told the judge he should be able to see his kids.
“They will learn their father is innocent and truth has been buried on your watch,” he exclaimed.
The sentence was handed down almost two years after Superior Court Justice Michael Brown found Jalali not guilty of second-degree murder but guilty of the lesser charge of …