A judge in Canada has given an offender a light sentence after the convict kicked his girlfriend’s toddler in the head and choked the 28-month-old child. A factor to decrease his sentence was that he had a “disassociation” with his “Indigenous ancestry.”

The 33-year-old Indigenous B.C. man has been sentenced to six months in prison for two counts of assault against the child. Both incidents were captured on the nanny cam in the toddler’s bedroom, per the National Post. The Crown asked that he get at least one year behind bars.

Court documents detailing his guilty plea written by B.C. Judge Temara Golinsky stated, “He first assaulted the child the evening of June 13, 2025. The footage starts right before K.J.M. comes into the room. The video shows the child was wearing only a diaper as he was lying on the floor of his bedroom, and his face appeared to be close to the gap under the door. The child was alone in the bedroom. At the time the video begins, the child was not making any sounds. K.J.M. opened the door inward, and the door struck the child on the shoulder rolling him back and away from the door. K.J.M. stepped into the room and used his foot to kick and move the child away from the door, rolling him into the centre of the room. He then bent down and pushed his hand on the front of the child’s neck, pressing him into the carpet. He squeezed the child’s neck for a moment while the child was screaming.”

That was the first assault. In the second assault, the convict kicked the child again in the head. “The second assault was two days later, on June 15, 2025. The video shows the child sitting on a bed, again dressed only in a diaper and alone in the room. The child can be heard crying, which sounded like a low droning or whining kind of sound. When K.J.M. opened the door, the toddler flinched. K.J.M. took a couple steps into the room and up to the bedside. He immediately squared his stance and then kicked the child once in the face or forehead with his bare foot, causing the child to fall onto his back. He yelled something at the child, then stormed out of the room and closed the door behind him. The child continued to lie there on his back and can be heard crying until the video ends a few seconds later,” the documents state.

Instead of ordering consecutive sentences of 6 months for each assault, which would have put the man behind bars for a year, the judge offered the toddler-kicking assailant concurrent sentences, meaning he will only serve 6 months behind bars.

The mitigating factors to the sentence included that the convict is “of Indigenous heritage.” The judge added, “While I acknowledge that there is no evidence that he or his immediate family were impacted by state actions such as residential schools, even the disassociation with one’s past and cultural heritage is a negative consequence of colonialization.”