By Bryan Eneas

P.A. woman receives a little closure after brutal attack

Jul 6, 2016 | 5:18 PM

When a night out at the bar turned bad for a local woman, she ended up at a hospital in Saskatoon waiting for surgery on her eyes.

Karlyn Zaleschuk was brutally assaulted in October of 2015. Today, July 6 she earned a little bit of closure as her attacker was sentenced in Prince Albert.

“I am (satisfied) in a sense. In a sense I’m not. Once she’s off the nine-month house arrest she has a conditional sentence… I don’t think she’ll listen to (those conditions) when she’s not being monitored,” Zaleschuk said outside of the Saskatchewan Provincial Courthouse.

On October 9, 2015 Zaleschuk and Jaeden Eleasser were both at the Gas Tavern in Prince Albert when Eleasser attacked Zaleschuk on the patio with a glass bottle.

Zaleschuk’s boyfriend took her home, and the next morning her father had to take her to Saskatoon for surgery on her eyes.

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The altercation in question left Zaleschuk with damage to both of her eyes and she now has blurred vision in her left eye, according to her victim impact statement. Zaleschuk wasn’t able to drive on her own until March of this year, leaving her relying on her parents to take her to doctor’s appointments.

The altercation left Zaleschuk with many emotional scars, as well as her physical scars.

“At this point in my life I don’t know how to heal myself of this pain. I am scared I won’t be able to fix myself, I am scared that I will be sad forever and I hate the thought of that,” Zaleschuk said in her victim impact statement.

Through a plea bargain Eleasser was sentenced to an 18-month conditional sentence, serving nine months house arrest. She is also on the hook for $500 to be given to Prince Albert Woman’s shelter. The court agreed to a conditional sentence because this is Eleasser’s first offence, and she has a toddler to whom she is the sole parent.

Zaleschuk said through her victim impact statement she would have rather seen a stiffer punishment, but she didn’t want to risk a not guilty verdict by going through a trial process.

“I feel in her mind maybe she doesn’t really understand the extent of what she did. Although she said sorry today, I don’t think she really is. I don’t know if a longer sentence would change that, but I guess this is just what its got to be,” she said.

Bryan.Eneas@jpbg.ca

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