Kidnap ended dad's crimes

[Tom]

THE drug-trafficking dad of stolen baby Montana will be behind bars for at least the next five years.

Guiseppe Dom "Joe" Barbaro -- who says his daughter's kidnapping ended his life of crime -- was sentenced yesterday to 9 1/2 years' jail with a minimum of seven for dealing in amphetamines, ecstasy and cannabis from 2002 until just months before his daughter's abduction in 2004.

 

Montana was just three weeks old when she was snatched from her mother, Anita Ciancio, as she packed her car at a Deer Park shopping centre.

 

The little girl was found two days later in an abandoned North Melbourne house.

 

County Court judge Ian Robertson yesterday acknowledged the ordeal had left Ms Ciancio traumatised and she was struggling without her de facto husband to support her.

 

He also noted a letter from Barbaro to the court, in which the long-time crook apologises for the harm his drug trafficking caused others and expresses regret over his lawless past.

 

Barbaro, 49, said in his letter he had spent little time with Montana before being jailed for his

 

crimes, and her kidnapping had been the catalyst for reform.

 

"I would hardly be human if almost losing my daughter forever didn't shock my senses to change," he wrote.

 

"I know that one day I can be with my family again, unlike people who have lost families to drug addiction."

 

Former hairdresser Barbaro, who is serving another sentence for drug trafficking in NSW, pleaded guilty to trafficking commercial quantities of methylamphetamine and MDMA, cultivating cannabis and dealing with proceeds of crime.

 

Judge Robertson ordered that his new sentence be served at the same time as the NSW sentence, making him eligible for parole in 2011.

 

Ms Ciancio said her husband was a changed man and she could not wait for him to come home.

 

Author:Elissa Hunt

Date:August 11, 2006

Source:Herald-Sun

Copyright:Herald-Sun

 

[Stoney]

dam thats nasty getting ya kid taken and then going to jail as well i guess karma has givin him a swift kick in the ass

 

cheerz

[MongyMan]

who cares

 

I WOULD care if all he sold was pot.

[stonedstump]

hmmm

 

poor guy

[Warped]

2011? Damn that's horrible. If he makes a monitored attempt to "rehabilitate," he shouldn't be kept away from his family for so long.

 

Especially after they've gone through that. I wonder if more funds will be directed towards the mans imprisonment or support for the wife and daughter? Yeah, I wonder...

[boxerbill]

Ohwell

 

Looks like theres an opening down there for anyone who wants to get in on the game.

 

Just joking guys