I hate to agree with a sentence that really isn't punishment but here, blind, deaf and mentally lost, it hardly serves much purpose putting this guy in jail -- I doubt he'd really know he was there and it would be a fortune to keep him (not that the cost of jail should be a big issue - we don't send people to jail to make money but to deter crime).
Man, 93, spared jail for sexually abusing daughters
A Quebec court judge spared a 93-year-old man a prison sentence for sexually abusing his two daughters over a seven-year period.
Philippe Hamelin was sentenced to two years less a day to be served in the community due to his advanced age and numerous health problems, though he was called an unrepentant abuser by the judge.
Hamelin was found guilty last year on a number of charges, including incest, sexual molestation and assault causing bodily harm, for incidents that took place between 1956 and 1963.
Hamelin, who had been strict and violent with his daughters when they were young, is now deaf and nearly blind, has skin cancer and suffers from a disease that is similar to Alzheimer's.
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