Trio Tortured Disabled Man for Three Weeks

The overwhelming stench of garbage and feces lurked outside the Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, apartment as police knocked on the door. The horrid smells worsened when the door opened, though no match for the sight officers would see inside the property.

Cockroaches covering the walls scurried for safety as the officers made their way through the apartment, stepping over empty liquor bottles, rotting food, piles of clothing, and old mattresses atop a filth-encrusted linoleum floor.

Visible from the main room of the apartment, police saw a battered and beaten man lying in a fetal position in the closet. He had a gaping head wound; his face swollen. Police thought the man was dead.

The Man Was Alive

As police approached the man, they noticed pus oozing out of his open head wound. He smelled of rotting flesh but was still breathing. The man was rushed to the hospital for treatment. He survived.

At the hospital, doctors said the man suffered from toxified blood that was enough to have caused his death. Doctors could not determine the cause of the blood toxicity but estimated that he had only a few more days left to live.

Police took the three occupants of the apartment, 30-year-old Stanley Brown, his 20-year-old girlfriend Dakota Thompson, and 22-year-old Nathaniel Jug into custody.

Three Weeks of Pure Hell

No one cared enough to report the man missing. The three lured the disabled man to their apartment where they abused, beat, and sexually assaulted the man who police described as having the mental capacity of a 12-year-old.

He loves The Hulk and chocolate milk and later told police, “Sometimes I think I'm too nice.”

The trio tied up the victim and unleashed a horrid attack which included beatings with hard objects, causing a severe skull fracture, and burns. Virtually every area of the man’s body was covered in bruises, lacerations, and burns.

The motive was robbery, though the torture and abuse that followed were purely sadistic in nature. The trio forced the man to hand over his bank card and withdrew all of his money.

Trio Call Police

The police found the man after a 911 call came in by the kidnappers who apparently were not very happy that a neighbor asked them to quieten down.

The neighbor, Amiee Morin, said that after she heard loud banging noises and a voice say “Help. Help. Ow, that hurts,” she asked them to keep the noise down. In response, she says the group threatened to tie her up and beat her up.

When Amiee’s boyfriend heard the news when he arrived home from work, he angrily marched to the apartment above his and broke a window. They called the police.

Police Enter the Home

When police knocked on the door, the trio gave them permission to enter the apartment. They found a notebook containing “house rules” which included: “Do not touch anything without permission, no overnights and lockout time of 11 pm.” A 17-year-old friend of the trio was also found inside the apartment. It is believed that the juvenile helped torture the man.

More Abuse Comes to Light

The victim told police that the trio made him “eat their crap and drink their pee” and that Stanley told him he had put maggots in the matter. Brown later admitted this occurred. The victim feared Stanley and thought he would kill him. They burned his genitals with a hair straightener and poured cayenne pepper in the water given to him to clean his wounds.

Stanley Brown testified that the attack occurred because, “It seemed like he had a nicer phone than me...I’m struggling to live...and this guys got a really nice phone.”

Sentencing

Brown was originally sentenced to 13 years and Thompson to 10 years.

Brown's sentence has been reduced from 13 years to seven years and two months (minus 32 months credit for pre-trial custody).

Thompson's sentence has been reduced from 10 years to six years and eight months (minus 32 months credit for pre-trial custody.

Court staff said the decision was made because of a "factual issue with the judgment" that needed to be resolved. An analysis of the resolved sentences reads that Provincial Court Judge Fred Campling erred in his decision to lay down lengthy sentences in the case.

Jug was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Additional Information/ Resources:

https://www.thespec.com/news/2010/03/25/a-tale-of-torture.html

https://www.pressreader.com/canada/national-post-latest-edition/20090219/281681135778393

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