Soldier jailed for nurse-practitioner attack
Judge says while Nicholas Mark Paulsen, 28, has strong potential for rehabilitation, community-based sentence wouldn’t deter others from violence on health-care workers
A soldier who trapped a nurse practitioner in her office and menaced her with a knife has to go to jail so as to deter others from perpetrating violent crimes against health-care workers, a judge ruled Thursday.
Master Cpl. Nicholas Mark Paulsen, 28, of Enniskillen Drive in Oromocto, previously pleaded guilty in Fredericton provincial court to assault with a knife, unlawful confinement and mischief causing damage to property.
The charges arose after a terrifying incident in the office of nurse practitioner Dawn LeBlanc in her offence at the Base Gagetown hospital last year on March 12.
Paulsen was back in court in custody Thursday to hear Judge Nataluie LeBlanc’s decision on sentence.