CANADA - Davion, 5, disappeared, found w/life-threatening injuries, Bramptom, July'18 *Arrest*

[dotr]

Finally, an update!!
Sep 30, 2025

Dyon Smart appears in court on July 19, 2018. Pam Davies

Brampton man gets life sentence for ‘barbarous’ attack on boy, 5, he tried to kill over mom’s rejection

The attack could fairly be described as “merciless, cruel, unfeeling, ruthless, vicious, and inhumane,” Superior Court Justice James Stribopoulos said.

www.thestar.com

By Jacques GallantCourts and Justice Reporter

''Warning: Contains graphic accounts of violence against children
A Brampton man has been sentenced to life in prison for attempting to murder a five-year-old boy through a “barbarous” and “relentless” beating as revenge for the child’s mother rejecting him.
Furious that his ex-girlfriend rebuffed his advances and no longer wanted him living in her basement, Dyon Smart woke her young son in the middle of the night on July 19, 2018, preying on the child’s trust for a man he once saw as his “stepdad.”
Smart lured the boy, identified only as D.D. due to a publication ban, to a wooded area next to railway tracks where he repeatedly stomped on his face, head and torso and then tried to asphyxiate him with a cloth, leaving the boy for dead as Smart went back to the house to wash his bloodied clothes and go to sleep.''

 

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MANDEL: Man gets life for 'merciless, cruel, unfeeling,' attempt to kill five-year-old boy

He wanted to punish his ex-girlfriend for kicking him out. The badly-beaten Brampton child was found near death by Peel Police canine unit.

torontosun.com

''The boy, who can only be identified as D, began to scream, “mommy, mommy, mommy” so loud a neighbour could hear — but he could not come to his aid. Smart unleashed what a judge would call “merciless violence” — stopping only when he assumed the little boy was dead.

It’s a miracle that he wasn’t.

Smart repeatedly stomped on D’s face, head and chest with such force that he left marks from the soles of his running shoes. He tried to strangle him with a rope leaving bruises around his neck. His repeated blows caused severe brain trauma, a fractured jaw, seven broken ribs and an almost-fatal injury to the boy’s liver that the pediatric expert testified was “usually associated with multi-storey falls, significant motor vehicle collisions, and other high-velocity traumatic events.”

 

[Niner]

Thank you for this update - I had this case sitting in my 2018 cases. Glad to hear he got life!