The Court House which the man appeared before.
SUDBURY STAR - A Saint Lucian man will spend 90 days in a Canadian prison on weekends for stabbing another man in the back.
Lennius Emmanuel, 45, will remain employed, in order to provide care as a single parent of one daughter and help support the mothers of his five other daughters.
The sentence was handed down by Ontario Court Justice Guy Mahaffy on Wednesday.
Mahaffy also issued a five-year weapons ban and ordered Emmanuel, who now lives in Toronto, to provide a genetic sample to the national DNA databank.
Lennius had pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily harm.
The Crown dropped a second charge, assault with a weapon.
The court heard that about 10 p.m. Dec. 14, 2013, a man whom Emmanuel knew knocked on the door of his Paris Street apartment.
When Emmanuel opened the door, he struck the man in the face, producing swelling to the right eye and lower lip.
Emmanuel then pulled out a knife and stabbed the man in the lower back.
Defence lawyer William Beach said the man had sexually assaulted Emmanuel’s girlfriend on an earlier date and had grabbed Emmanuel’s young daughter that day.
Emmanuel had a prior criminal record, but it was dated.
Beach noted Emmanuel, who is originally from St. Lucia, but is now a landed immigrant, is providing care to one of his six daughters as the mother was deported to Grenada last year.
Emmanuel will serve his intermittent sentence in the Toronto area.