BY KEITH LACEY
A young husband who beat up his neighbour after he caught him ?playing house? with his wife was spared a jail sentence Wednesday.
Andriaa Vandenbosch, 25, pleaded guilty to assault and property charges after he caught his wife, who is the mother of his two young children, in bed with a teenaged neighbour in July.
Vandenbosch assaulted the teenager by punching him numerous times, causing the victim to suffer bruises to his face, bleeding from his ears and soreness to various parts of this body.
A couple of weeks later, while in a dispute with his wife, Vandenbosch became enraged and punched a hole in a wall, and tipped over the dining room table, knocking it into a china cabinet, causing about $1,500 in damage.
Since the incident, the teenager has moved to southern Ontario. Vandenbosch and his wife, who was in court Wednesday, have been attempting to reconcile.
?His only wish is to get his family back together again,? said his defence lawyer Denis Michel. ?His children and his wife are his life.?
After hearing all submissions, Justice Guy Mahaffy agreed to a joint submission that Vandenbosch, who has no previous criminal record, pay a $1,000 fine. He also placed him on probation for 18 months.
Mahaffy warned the accused such an assault would normally result in a jail term. However, because of the unusual circumstances, Vandenbosch?s
remorse and his willingness to accept counselling, incarceration was not necessary in this case.
Vandenbosch was ordered to take a partner assault awareness program while on probation.
Mahaffy would not agree to impose language in the probation order that would specify when Vandenbosch?s wife would allow her husband to have contact with her and their two children.
?This micro-managing by the court of these probation orders is driving me nuts,? he said.
Vandenbosch must not get into any more trouble while on probation and he knows breaking any more laws will prohibit him from seeing his wife or
children, said the veteran judge.
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