Two of three people convicted of assault were absent from court when sentences were handed down.
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Calgarian Carol Nordvall wept Friday as a city judge ordered her to serve a 10-year penitentiary term for her role in the brutal torture of a man lured to a home for sex.
And while Nordvall didn’t get the harshest sentence handed out by Justice Charlene Anderson, she was the only person who left the courtroom by way of prison cell.
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Anderson also sentenced Nordvall’s accomplices, Richard Wayne Parsons, to 11½ years, and Christina Schollen to six years, but neither was in court to learn their fates.
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Parsons is currently wanted on an outstanding warrant after he failed to show up for a previous appearance during his prosecution.
Schollen was at the Calgary Courts Centre last week when Anderson heard sentencing submissions on the case. But before court convened she got cold feet and fled the building.
Anderson agreed to sentence both Parsons and Schollen in their absence after ruling they had absconded from their trial.
All three were convicted by Anderson in November 2022 of aggravated assault in connection with the April 15, 2019, attack of a city man at a Bridgeland residence. Nordvall and Parsons were also found guilty of sexual assault with a weapon, among other charges.
The victim, who can’t be identified, was lured to the home by the promise of sex for money.
But when he got there, Schollen led him inside from the street and he was beaten by three males and attacked with what he believed was a fish bonker, before being tied up and dragged to the basement. There the assault continued, where he was burned with cigarettes, struck by Parsons with a socket wrench and kicked in the face.
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At one point Nordvall cut the back of the victim’s jeans before he was sexually assaulted with a sex toy.
In sentencing Nordvall, the Court of King’s Bench judge noted she is considered a high risk to reoffend.
But she stopped short of handing the Calgary woman the 16-year term sought by Crown prosecutor Todd Buziak, agreeing with defence counsel James McLeod that such a punishment would be crushing.
Buziak asked for the same 16-year sentence for Parsons and argued Schollen’s lesser role warranted an eight-year punishment.
McLeod said an appropriate sentence for Nordvall would have been six to eight years.
He described Nordvall as “an individual who had struggled with substance abuse for most of her life.”
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