🇨🇦 Canadian Judge Slashes Sentence to Save Foreign National From Deportation After Domestic Violence Conviction

Adebowale Adekoya, a 33-year-old Nigerian national, violated a no-contact order after being charged with assaulting his former partner — showed up at her home, stayed a week, drank, and pressured her to drop charges. The trial judge called deportation appropriate. Then Justice Mario Lanteigne stepped in and granted a conditional discharge because returning to Nigeria would cause Adekoya "social and economic hardship." The victim's hardship, apparently, was less relevant.

This is the Canadian legal system in 2025: a woman is terrorized in her own home, and the court's primary concern is the career prospects of the man who did it. The judge literally weighed his LinkedIn profile against a domestic violence conviction and ruled in favour of the LinkedIn profile. When immigration consequences outweigh criminal ones, you no longer have a justice system — you have a settlement program with a courthouse attached.

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