Canadian man who killed wife, then daughters after taking them to church, sentenced to life
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A Canadian man has been sentenced to 35 years-to-life in prison after a court heard that he killed his wife and then took his two young daughters to church before killing them with a children's toy.
Jacob Forman, 35, described at the time of his arrest in December 2017 as a devout Christian, heard the sentence Monday in British Columbia. He had pleaded guilty to murder two weeks ago.
His daughters Karina, 7, and Yesenia, 8, were choked to death with a hobby horse, CTV News reported.
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Forman told the girls he wanted to “play a game” with them before killing them, prosecutor Murray Kaay said at the sentencing.
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“He said (during a confession to police), he thought it would be better for them to go home to heaven than to grow up in a world where daddy had killed mommy,” Kaay told the judge, CTV reported.
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Kaay said Forman's explanation could only be described “as narcissistic and selfish to a degree which defies comprehension," the news outlet reported.
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“He killed his children in a callous, cowardly manner,” he said.
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Forman said he became enraged when his wife, Clara Forman, 33, confronted him about his drinking, CBC News reported. He killed her with a sledgehammer.
One of her friends called cops after Forman told her that his wife had left him, the station reported.
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Cops found the bodies in the garage two days after they were killed.