“Tim was my wild child,” says Carol. “He was a rebel and lived his life to the fullest. Always. He would always tell me, ‘I’m gonna be famous one day, mom. I’m gonna be famous!’

“I never imagined it would be for his last day here.”

Carol believes Tim’s death was for a greater purpose - to bring attention to the NCR (Not Criminally Responsible) law that so many Canadians didn’t know existed until this crime was committed.

“If I don’t bring attention to this, if I stop talking about it, nothing will change.”

Li is currently being treated as a patient - not a criminal - and will undergo his first yearly review June 1, 2009 to see if he is deemed fit to reenter society. If and when he is released, he will not have a criminal record despite the fact that he committed this crime.

Carol and her family must now endure Li’s yearly hearings, in hopes that their story makes a difference to the panel of experts who assess him. Even if Tim’s family does attend the yearly reviews there is no guarantee that Li won’t be released.

How can Carol and her family ever heal from Tim’s murder when they will constantly have to face his killer?

Put yourself in Carol’s position. Imagine it’s your child who was brutally murdered, decapitated, his body ripped apart, eyes and heart ingested by this “person.” Imagine hearing about this crime and praying for the family of the victim only to find out the next day that it’s your son.

Imagine having to talk about your child the way Carol has to talk about Tim.

The details of the murder are gory but Carol is candid about what happened to her son on that bus.

“Mr. Li taunted (passengers and police) with my son’s head and dropped it in the stairwell (of the bus.) He continued to ravage my son’s body, removing all of his internal organs. When he finally did escape out of the bus window, he had my son’s nose, tongue and ear in a baggie in his pocket.

“Some internal organs were thrown onto the front dash of the bus, he was in the process of trying to remove one of his feet.

“He ate his eyes, and he ate at least one third of his heart muscle as well as other tissue. Mr. Li was observed during this attack cannibalizing my son, and smelling and licking his fingers.

“There were body parts in bags in four to six different locations in the bus. There was a gaping hole where his heart was ripped out. He was pulp. His body was pulp.”

All of this took place over a span of almost 5 hours.

Five hours. While the police stood outside the bus and did nothing.

Now look at the pictures of Tim’s short life and imagine those are pictures of you and your child, from the time of his birth to the time of his death. Wouldn’t you do everything in your power to change the law?

No mom should ever have to describe her child’s murder but Carol does it in hopes that Tim’s death raises awareness to the NCR law.

Carol wants justice for a crime no one is being punished for.

She has started an organization called the deDelley Foundation for Life and is trying to bring awareness to the completely ridiculous law that takes care of the criminal and forgets about the victim.

What is Tim’s Law?

Carol proposes a life for a life, meaning the person who takes a life will lose his freedom for the rest of his natural life. Not a whittled down sentence and time served for “good behaviour” or any of the other legal B.S. that goes on in our “Criminal Justice” system, but a life served in a facility for the criminally insane.

She compares such a facility to Gollersdorrf prison for the criminally insane in Austria that will hold Josef Fritzl, the Austrian who confessed to imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and fathering her seven children.

Among those being held there is Robert Ackermann, who killed and then ate a man's body parts.

How can you support this law?

Carol is one very strong-willed, determined, and focused woman who needs help making to make Tim’s Law a reality.

Too many times, a story is sensationalized in the media and then dismissed once something bigger and more tragic happens.

Her ultimate goal is to protect other families from experiencing the same loss and injustice as a result of the current NCR law.

Imagine that the next time you read about a vicious crime, it’s your child who is the victim.

And then imagine that the murderer gets the same bullshit punishment as Vince Li.

“I think Timothy’s death, happened this way, was a brutal as it was, to bring attention to the issues so that change will happen. So that this doesn’t continue to happen.”

I asked her how she is going to make this all happen and her answer was simple.

“I don’t know but I'm learning as I go, and using all resources and assistance offered. I have never been in the justice system. I don’t know what I’m doing.

“I will take it as far as I can but I don’t know how I’m going to get there.”

Before Tim’s murder, she was a “school bus-driving mom,” who took a part-time job cooking for a seniors lodge to pay for trip to Florida for her and her family. Obviously, the family never took that trip and she hasn’t been able to work since the murder.

Carol has focused all of her time and energy trying to make a difference and change the NCR law.

I asked if a lawyer had stepped up and offered services Pro Bono but she said no.

There is a petition available at www.TimsLaw.ca that needs signatures.

From one mom to another, show your support.

Put yourself in Carol’s position.

Can you imagine? M