Life no parole
“Based on his progress to date, his risk of reoffending and/or violating the conditions of full parole can be effectively managed without the condition requiring his participation in psychological counselling,” the report said. The attending psychologist noted in a final discharge summary report that Dewald had successfully transitioned back to living independently in the community. The most recent session took place on Sept.
“The board imposed the special condition that you follow psychological counselling because your emotion management issues were a contributing factor to your criminal offending and to ensure that your treatment/counselling needs were addressed,” the decision stated.ĭewald took part in 34 months of psychological counselling. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Tuesday’s parole board decision noted Dewald participated in psychological therapy while in prison and during his day parole and full parole. This was followed by another six months of day parole, beginning in March 2019. The only incident during this time was a physical altercation Dewald had with another resident regarding rude comments made towards him in the presence of others. Prior to receiving full parole, Dewald’s time in the community included a six-month day parole at a community residential facility that began in September 2018. Dewald was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 23 years for the drowning of his children Christopher and Jennifer. Thomas Dewald, left, is escorted into Chatham court under tight security in this file photo from June 21, 2019. He then abandoned their bodies and pretended to nap in the backyard before later going to a neighbouring home and telling others, including police, the children had accidentally drowned.ĭewald would later admit to an ex-girlfriend he was obsessed with her and intentionally drowned the children because of his love for her. 13, 1998, by holding their heads underwater in Lake Erie while the children were enjoying a swim near their grandfather’s Wheatley-area home. He drowned the children simultaneously on Aug. The Correctional Service of Canada recommended the conditions be removed.ĭewald, 58, received a life sentence after pleading guilty in a Chatham courtroom in March 1999 to two counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of his two children, Christopher, 12, and Jennifer, 10.