Maternal Devotion to Crime

Human nature is predictably disappointing.  What should affect and afflict us more greatly? - that an adult child of ours must face justice for having committed blind, raging murder against an innocent other depriving those who love him of his presence - or that he has found it in his nature to commit the most repulsive human act of mortal bloodshed against another?

Even if, assuming that the mother of 19-year-old Ahmed Hafizi mourned the death of a stranger at the hands of her son in the months following that dreadful event outside a ByWard Market nightclub, it must further be assumed that the death of 24-year-old Navid Niran no longer troubles her.  What inspires dread and grief in the woman is her son's lack of freedom, denied bail.

One might conclude that this is a mother deeply engaged in the welfare of her child, and that would surely be correct.  And then one might wonder at this woman's judgement in accustoming herself to living with the father of her son, a man who, on the evidence, represents no impeccable role model for an impressionable young boy to aspire toward emulating.

Ahmed Hafizi's father Temorshah Hafizi has quite the record for crimes committed.  Drug convictions, convictions for aggravated assault, assault with a weapon, and possessing the proceeds of crime.  "Mr. Hafizi has a history of drug-related convictions and was trafficking for his own personal gain" concluded Ontario Superior Court Justice Bonnie Warkentin.

And then she sentenced the man to a year in jail (credit due him for over 11 months of pre-sentence custody), banned him from possessing weapons for life, and ordered that he forfeit bullets, brass knuckles and the $100 cash seized when police arrested him.  The 11 months of incarceration on this account, coincides with his son's date with destiny in the murder of a man unknown to him.

In the same courtroom, an hour later Ahmed Hafizi's moher collapsed to the floor outside the courtroom after Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Beaudoin ordered her son remain behind bars to await his first-degree murder trial.  An altercation inside a ByWard Market bar led to Ahmed Hafizi attacking and repeatedly stabbing to death Havid Niran, father of a little boy.