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Home My WebLink AboutThe Citizen, 2007-03-22, Page 17Continued from page 10a cigarette and when he came in, sheand the boy were in the masterbedroom. Koetsier said he nudged her towaken her and when she didn’tanswer he “tapped” her on the head. Hunter found the explanation a little hard to believe, however. “Have you never put the child to bed?” Hunter asked. “Is there any reason you couldn’t have picked up the child and put him to bed instead of waking your wife to do so?” Koetsier said he could have but the location of the bed against the wall would have made it difficult. Morris described this as just“another example of your entitlement,the same as with the TV show.”For his part defence counsel Mr.Ritter questioned the victim’s motives.She admitted under questioning thatthe marriage was troubled and that shewould like to return to her family in the United States. She also admitted that she had struggled with depression and had fears that Koetsier might try to gain custody of their son. Ritter noted that she had been vague in the details of the first incident, arguing that his client, who pinpointed the date as April 2006 had given an explanation that couldn’t be rejected. He also said that in the second casethere was no reason for his client toeven try to wake his wife if, as shesaid, she was in the spare room.“We’ve heard it was common practicefor her to sleep with the child. Whyslap her now? Her version makes nosense.” Hunter said he doubted Koetsier’s claim that he had not touched the victim in the first incident. “It defies logic. While there was no striking he pushed her and that constitutes an assault.” The second incident began as a result of what Hunter called a “rather odd situation, where for some reason Mom is the only one who can pick upa sleeping child and put him to bed.”“On a scale of one to 10, though Ihate getting into the seriousness, bothof these are at the low end,” he said, ingranting a conditional discharge witha one-year probation period. Koetsier can possess no firearms until his probation ends. HEARING A plea from the victim failed to sway Hunter in a hearing for a variation on a no-contact probation clause. Probation officer Deb Singer advised against Paul Martin and the victim, who have both a romantic and a business relationship, being allowedcontact before he completescounselling. Martin was sentenced tojail for an assault on the victim. Singer noted that Martin had ahistory of domestic assault and feelshe needs intensive counselling. 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