Calgary man guilty of second-degree murder in toddler’s death
Posted March 19, 2021 6:58 am.
Last Updated March 19, 2021 3:14 pm.
CALGARY – A Calgary man who threw a three-year-old girl into a wall and tripped her when she interrupted his video game has been found guilty of second-degree murder.
In Sept. 2018, Justin Bennett was charged in the 2017 death of Ivy Wick in a northeast Calgary home.
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Justice Blair Nixon said the Crown proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Bennett fatally injured Ivy at her home, and her blunt force trauma injuries were not caused by a simple trip and fall.
The defence claimed that the injuries were caused by Ivy’s mother, but Nixon said there was no reasonable explanation for this. Therefore, he says the only possibility is Bennett caused the death and is guilty of culpable homicide.
The girl was found injured in a home along Rundlehorn Drive N.E. and later died. Police said Ivy’s mother and her boyfriend were the only ones with direct access to the girl on the day she was taken to the hospital.
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Bennett said when he checked on her later that day, she wasn’t breathing.
His lawyer argues that Bennett made up the confession to the officer in order to join what he believed to be a crime organization. He added Helen Woodsworth, Ivy’s mother, wasn’t in the shower and that she was the one who laid the deadly beating.
-with files from The Canadian Press
