Warning: Contains graphic accounts of violence against children

A Brampton man has been sentenced to life in prison for attempting to murder a five-year-old boy through a “barbarous” and “relentless” beating as revenge for the child’s mother rejecting him.

Furious that his ex-girlfriend rebuffed his advances and no longer wanted him living in her basement, Dyon Smart woke her young son in the middle of the night on July 19, 2018, preying on the child’s trust for a man he once saw as his “stepdad.”

Smart lured the boy, identified only as D.D. due to a publication ban, to a wooded area next to railway tracks where he repeatedly stomped on his face, head and torso and then tried to asphyxiate him with a cloth, leaving the boy for dead as Smart went back to the house to wash his bloodied

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