By The Canadian Press

Conditional sentence for man who attacked nurse ‘unacceptable’: union

Oct 11, 2016 | 3:25 PM

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. — A man who attacked a nurse at an Abbotsford, B.C., hospital will not serve time in jail.

Ryan Stard pleaded guilty earlier this year to assault causing bodily harm for the March 2015 attack on a male nurse at the Abbotsford Regional Hospital.

The provincial court heard there were mitigating factors that contributed to the attack, including mental health issues.

Stard was given a conditional discharge in court on Tuesday.

The B.C. Nurses’ Union calls the judgment unacceptable and disappointing.

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President Gayle Duteil says the sentence sends the message that it’s okay to beat up health-care workers.

“In the courtroom today, we were compared to police officers and peace officers, and yet the justice system let the nurses of B.C. down,” she says.