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A Mississauga man who “harboured significant resentment” toward the
family of a girl he molested has been sentenced to life in prison for the
“senseless, callous and brutal murder” of her 83-year-old grandmother.
Alexander Bates, 51, who was on parole for molesting Maria Araujo’s
granddaughter at the time of her December 2018 murder, was out for revenge
against the family whom he blamed for opposing his parole application,
Superior Court Justice Bruce Durno said inside a Brampton court Thursday.
Bates pleaded guilty to second-degree murder earlier this year. On Thursday,
Durno ruled he should have no chance at parole for 16 years.
Bates has already been convicted and sentenced for attempting to murder
Maria Araulo’s son, Alberto Araujo, and his 61-year-old mother-in-law one
day later inside their Niagara-area home.
In court, Durno described the family’s ordeal as “a horror movie.””The Araujo family will not leave here today feeling their concerns for the
offender are over,” he said.
The link between Maria Araujo’s murder and Bates’ history with the family
is inescapable, Durno said.
Alberto Araujo and Bates were both motorcycle enthusiasts and had been
close friends. After Araujo was injured in a near-fatal motorcycle crash,
Bates offered to assist his friend by watching his 14-year-old daughter while
he was in hospital.
Beginning in September 2012, Bates groomed the teenage girl, engaging in a
series of sexual acts that included intercourse over a span of three years, the
judge said.
Bates later pleaded guilty to sexual interference and, in 2016, was sentenced
to three years.
Durno said Bates “harboured significant resentment” towards the girl’s
parents, blaming them for being charged.
The court heard how the family “lived in fear,” prompting their sudden
relocation from Mississauga to Smithville, Ont., west of St. Catharines.
Bates was released on parole in February 2018. Ten months later, on Dec. 20,
2018, he drove a rented truck to Maria Araujo’s Mississauga home in an
effort to uncover the family’s new whereabouts, Durno continued.
Bates arrived around 1:54 p.m. while the Araujo family matriarch was alone
wrapping Christmas gifts.
He left 36 minutes later.
Maria Araujo’s body was found the next day by her niece. She died of
manual strangulation and blunt-force trauma to her head and body.
“While in the house, (Bates) murdered Maria Araujo,” Durno said, describing
how he left items strewn throughout the home to create the impression that
the home had been broken into and ransacked.The next day, Bates drove to the home in Smithville, carrying an imitation
firearm. He punctured the tires of both vehicles at the home, then lay in wait
in his truck.
While Alberto Araujo was attempting to change a flattened tire, Bates
attacked him from behind. He told his former friend that he had a gun and
ordered him into the house.
Bates then bound and gagged Araujo and demanded to know where his
daughter was.
Bates proceeded to text Araujo’s wife, Meaghan Cher, pretending to be her
husband in an attempt to lure her to the home.
Cher and her 61-year-old mother Lynda Gallandt arrived to discover a bloody
Alberto Araujo tied up in the basement and Bates lurking in a corner.
Cher threw an aluminum bat at him and then fled; Bates chased after her
before grabbing her mother, who was trapped, Durno explained.
Bates then beat both Araujo and Gallandt with a bat, fracturing his skull and
causing lacerations to her hand. Both victims also suffered ligature marks
around their necks and wrist.
Cher meanwhile called 911.
In an attempt to evade Niagara Regional Police, Bates pulled out an imitation
firearm and pointed it at the officers.
He was shot multiple times. A bullet remains lodged in his spine.
Bates was previously sentenced to 13 years in prison in August 2019 for the
attempted murders of Araujo and Gallandt.
His sentence for Maria Araujo’s murder will be served concurrently.
“I never thought my mother would lose her life to this monster,” Alberto
Araujo stated in his victim impact statement
What were the mitigating and the aggravating factors that both the judges
(J. De Filippis and J. Durno, respectively) may have to take into consideration when sentencing Alexander Bates?
What other history can you find about Mr. Bates that could have informed the sentence of either judge?
What is your feeling about the sentence(s)? Were they fair? What do you think?
should have been the final outcome of these cases?
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