MONTREAL — A woman from Montreal's South Shore has been charged with aggravated assault after allegedly scalding a 10-year-old boy with boiling water. On Friday morning, police in Longueuil, Que.
MONTREAL — A woman from Montreal's South Shore has been charged with aggravated assault after allegedly scalding a 10-year-old boy with boiling water.
Borel was first arrested immediately after the incident, which occurred outside a residence in Longueuil, but she was released with a promise to appear in court. The boy was transported to hospital to be treated for burns to his upper body. The move follows public outcry over Borel's initial release. On Thursday, the Red Coalition, a Montreal-based lobby group fighting racism, wrote a letter to Longueuil Mayor Catherine Fournier and police Chief Marc Leduc calling for Borel to be taken into custody.
"We ask you to consider, for a moment, if the roles had been reversed — if a Black man had thrown boiling water on a 10-year-old white girl," he wrote."It is hard to imagine that he would have been allowed to go free while awaiting trial. Instead, he would likely have been detained immediately, facing serious legal consequences from the outset."
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