HUNTER: ‘Cruel and unusual’ is a boy killed by stray bullet

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Canadian judges love to toss out the old “cruel and unusual” chestnut when it suits their ideological whims.

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The violent illegal immigrant whose deportation is iced because it might be “cruel and unusual.”

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Mandatory minimum sentences for gun crimes? “Cruel and unusual.”

A killer who ONLY murdered one person has to do the full 25? Again, cruel and unusual. He should get a discount for only murdering one luckless individual.

Violent youthful offenders should not feel the full weight of the law; again, because that would be “cruel and unusual.”

Tough to get bail and conditions? “Cruel and unusual.”

But the phrase “cruel and unusual” is never, ever used when we are discussing murder victims or crime victims of any stripe. Victims like eight-year-old boy JahVai Roy, murdered by a stray bullet early Saturday morning in North York.

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And we have the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, Richard Wagner, moaning and sobbing that his fellow Canadians just don’t understand. How wise they are, how just, how exquisitely fair. How absolutely goddamn fantastic our robed great and good truly are.

Why the Chief Justice is so infallible that some generous soul sprang for a bust of this God-like figure. The shameless ego of this so-called man of law is breathtaking.

But that little boy who won’t see his ninth birthday? Who will never play another game of baseball, soccer or hockey? Who will never marry, have children or grow old with a lifetime of wonderful memories?

A few eggs sometimes need to be broken in pursuit of woke Nirvana, the Supreme Court will tell us.

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That little boy in the morgue was sleeping in his bed, a place of sanctuary, when terror struck. A stray bullet hit the little guy in the head, killing him at his apartment building at Martha Eaton Way and Trethewey Dr. near Black Creek Dr. in the city’s north end.

Despite heroic efforts by cops and paramedics, the boy was later pronounced dead in the hospital.

“It’s an unimaginably tragic event that has occurred here,” Det. Sgt. Jason Davis told reporters while providing an update from the scene on Saturday morning.

“What’s happened here is a cowardly, disgusting act of violence, and every resource available in the city is being allocated to this right now.”

So far, cops have not released any descriptions of the killers. They did say two other units in the building were hit by bullets as well. Thankfully, there were no injuries.

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Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw said he was “heartbroken by the tragic loss” and that “no family should endure this.”

The chief said every resource the cops have is committed to nabbing the killers. Believe it. In homicide parlance, this is a red ball. The killers will be in handcuffs inside a week or two, too hot even for others in the criminal milieu.

And when these monsters are busted? We will likely find the answers as we suspect. It will be a combination of horrors.

Soft gun laws, easy bail, hug a thug for teen terrors, easy prison time with a small army of social workers and judges to kiss it better.

That eight-year-old citizen of this city, so coldly murdered, had every right to feel safe in his bed and look forward to the promise of a rich life.

The killer who took his life may have squeezed the trigger, but a Canadian justice system that doesn’t give a whit for murder victims, young, old, rich or poor?

They provided the bullets.

bhunter@postmedia.com

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