Crown seeks jail time for support worker's assault on elderly patient

Speaking through a translator, former personal support worker Jie Xiao stood in an Ottawa courtroom on Thursday in front of the children and grandchildren of the elderly man he assaulted to tell them he was “deeply sorry” for what he had done.
Raghida Karam, whose elderly father Georges Karam was being cared for by Xiao at Gerry J. Armstrong long-term care home when he was struck in the face 11 times last March, quietly said, “Thank you.”
The brief exchange took place dur