Father Who Directed Beating of 14-Year-Old High School Student Ordered to Pay Over $479,000

Father Who Directed Beating of 14-Year-Old High School Student Ordered to Pay Over $479,000
A man who was injured in a planned assault in 2009 when he was 14 was awarded nearly half a million dollars in damages by a British Columbia court. Martin Bureau//AFP via Getty Images
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The man who orchestrated an assault on a grade 9 student in 2009, out of revenge for his younger son, was ordered to pay over $497,000 in damages, the B.C. Supreme Court ruled last week.
Micheal Daniel Tilton was convicted of two counts of assault by the Provincial Court in 2011 for causing bodily harm to the victim, Riley Robert Siegerist, and head-butting a by-stander who wanted to stop the beating. Siegerist was 14 years old at the time. The judgement was never reported.

The Revenge

The assault happened in April 2009.