Sportswriter Jonah Keri, who was convicted of domestic abuse, loses parole appeal

Jonah Keri during batting practice before the start of the Toronto Blue Jays game in April 2017 in Toronto, Canada.
Baseball author Jonah Keri throughout batting apply earlier than the beginning of the Toronto Blue Jays sport in April 2017 in Toronto, Canada.
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Jonah Keri, the baseball author serving a 21-month sentence for home violence, was denied parole by a Quebec parole board that dominated his launch would “characterize an unacceptable threat to society.”

The parole board issued its ruling after a listening to final week. The Instances obtained a duplicate of the choice on Tuesday.

Keri, who was sentenced final March, has since participated in “packages regarding impulsiveness, anger administration and conjugal abuse dynamics,” in accordance with the choice. He proposed transferring right into a midway home and taking part in a home violence program.

Keri, who had most lately labored for The Athletic and Canada’s Sportsnet, had agreed earlier than sentencing to a press release of details involving 14 incidents of violence in opposition to his ex-wife, Amy Kaufman.

“Throughout these incidents,” Choose Alexandre Dalmau wrote in sentencing Keri, “the offender punched the sufferer within the knees, hit her on the pinnacle and on her ears, pushed her, dragged her on the bottom, slapped her, bit her, spat in her face, head-butted her, shook her, pulled her hair, and grabbed her by the shoulders whereas threatening to throw her off a balcony.”

In final week’s choice, parole board officers Jean Dugre and Julie Filion cited the collection of incidents, “as much as and together with an tried strangling,” and stated proof of a major change in Keri’s conduct was “not displayed” on the listening to.

Amy Kaufman, ex-wife of sportswriter Jonah Keri, shares her story of home violence. She hopes it's going to assist others higher perceive victims.

“Regardless of the months of remedy, you don't seem to have totally appropriated all that you simply discovered,” Dugre and Filion wrote, “and tend to keep away from responding to the parole board’s questions, preferring to color your self in a greater mild.”

Keri is entitled to enchantment, in addition to to pursue one other parole listening to in six months.

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