Arianna Goberdhan - 9 months pregnant

“I cry every day for my daughter and my granddaughter,” Goberdhan’s mother, Sherry Goberdhan, said during the March 28 hearing. “Tell me how any mother can deal with this.”

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Arianna Goberdhan, 27, of Ajax, was nine months pregnant when she was killed on April 7th, 2017. The murderer is her husband Nicholas Tyler Baig.

The little girl that was killed with her was named Asaara.

Sentencing was concluded for the single count of second degree murder on May 2nd, 2019.

Tyler Baig was sentenced to 17 years in prison before being eligible for full parole. One year for each time he stabbed his pregnant wife, and no years for killing his daughter who was due to be born any day.

A few weeks after the judge handed down the decision, Baig’s lawyer announced he was appealing the sentence. His argument: because of his young age the ineligibility period is too harsh.

Baig was about to turn 25 when he brutally murdered his daughter and his wife.

The appeal came just a few days before what would have been Arianna’s 29th birthday, and about a month after what should have been Asaara’s 2nd.

Initial Media Coverage

Although the mainstream media initially reported, ““Police have yet to say whether Baig could be charged in the death of the unborn child or whether his charges could be upgraded,” Canadian law does not allow for any additional charges for the unborn victim, Asaara.

It is difficult to speculate why CBC and Global National news sources reported the story in this way. Or why the truth of it is only ever revealed in the secondary stories on the pages of smaller localized media markets.

The fact is, in Canada there are zero additional charges for the life of her child when a pregnant woman is murdered. The child and the woman’s choice to carry is completely disregarded. Even if that child was due to be born any day as was the case for Arianna’s daughter Asaara.

Although the initial charges were upgraded to from “Second” to “First” degree murder, the most typical outcome in Canadian law in these circumstances is that the killer will be allowed to plea down to second degree and get around 15 years.

Soon after the sentence is handed down and reported as “life” in the media, Parole Board of Canada (PBC) will send a letter to those who registered as victims of the crime informing them that the murderer will be eligible for several types of parole years sooner than what was indicated by the judge at sentencing. This will not be reported by the news. The recipients of this letter will be warned against sharing the information publicly.

In the end, for slaughtering a 27 year old woman who was 9 months pregnant with her first child, the murderer could still be out of jail before the child would have become a teenager.

And Asaara will have been no more a factor in the gravity of the sentence than the weather on the day she was murdered with her mother.

Rest in peace Arianna and Asaara.

Liberal MP Mark Holland is the representative for the Ajax area where the Goberdhan family lives.

His party’s official stance has been to not support the creation of a tool for the prosecution to use that would recognize Arianna’s choice, Asaara, in the charges against their killer Tyler Baig.

You can ask Mark Holland what he is doing to represent the Goberdhan family, his constituents, in this gross miscarriage of justice here:

Email: Mark.Holland@parl.gc.ca
Telephone: 613-995-8042