Crown wants couple to spend eight years in prison for horrific death of their son

The Canadian Press

· Posted: May 16, 2025 2:14 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago

A Crown authoritative is calling for a Calgary mates who killed their severely burned and emaciated toddler to walk 8 years successful prison.

Sonya Pasqua and Michael Sinclair pleaded blameworthy past twelvemonth to manslaughter aft Gabriel Sinclair-Pasqua died successful 2021 with large burns to a 3rd of his body.

An agreed connection of facts says the 18-month-old's parents didn't question aesculapian attraction and tried to dainty the burns with chromatic earlier helium died from an corruption and caput trauma.

A pediatric surgeon told tribunal the burns would person required exigency aesculapian attraction and contiguous hospitalization.

Prosecutor Vicki Faulkner says what the mates did was astatine the highest extremity of motivation culpability and they saw the lad arsenic a paycheque.

Court heard 7 unfortunate interaction statements from household members who expressed their grief astatine the nonaccomplishment of the boy.