"When I was nine, I was an altar server; when I was 14, I was a straight-A student; when I was 19, I was facing first-degree murder," Rohan George tells The Canadian Press. "When I'm 34, I'm being called to the bar. Life isn't linear."
Things started to unravel in his mid-teens, during his years at Mother Teresa Catholic Secondary in east-end Toronto. Like other Tamil teens of immigrant parents, he struggled to find his place in a system that seemed indifferent at best, exclusionary at worst. Belonging to some kind of gang afforded a sense of identity.
George and three others grabbed their teen victim at his work and forced him into a car. He and a second man then stabbed the resisting teen four times in the back and left him at a nearby park to die. Charged with first-degree murder, George pleaded guilty to manslaughter in March 2007, and was sentenced to eight years behind bars. He was granted full parole in June 2009, having spent time in some of the country's toughest penal institutions, and immediately ran into obstacles all-too familiar to those who've been sucked into the criminal justice vortex.
In extensive submissions to the law society panel, George described how he had turned his life around. A key moment, he said, came during talks with a psychologist in Joyceville Penitentiary, where he learned the concept of "active remorse."
He is still a killer
A great turn around.
Knife to see he’s taking a stab at practicing law. 🥺
That dead guy is probably really impressed with this success story
Quite the system we operate!
The moral of the story kiddies, prison works.
Should have been convicted of murder, and given more time to “properly process the past years”
He’s still a low life murder!!!!!
It’s good to see that people can be rehabilitated.
A great, inspirational story. Good for him.
He should be good at helping other gang members now
Excellent story. Wait. Is the kid that he killed still dead? If so, let's change that from excellent to slightly less excellent.
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