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'Club Med sentence' for support worker angers victim's family

The family of a dementia patient at a city-run long-term care home is upset over what they're calling the "Club Med sentence" handed down Friday to the personal support worker seen on video punching the elderly man in the head.

Judy Trinh

News Ottawa October 21

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