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16-Year-Old Pleads Guilty to Attempted Murder After Saskatoon School Fire Attack
The 16-year-old will serve two years in intensive rehabilitative custody and one year supervised in the community after pleading guilty to attempted murder in a school arson.
- Justice Krista Zerr accepted a joint submission on Monday, imposing a youth sentence on a now 16-year-old girl who pleaded guilty in December to attempted murder.
- At lunchtime at Evan Hardy Collegiate, the offender, 14 at the time, doused the 15-year-old victim with lighter fluid and set her on fire after their friendship spiralled into obsession and threats.
- The victim suffered burns to 40 per cent of her body, required skin grafts, underwent six surgeries in the first six weeks, and spent more than 90 days in hospital.
- The joint recommendation calls for two years in intensive rehabilitative custody followed by one year of community supervision under the Intensive Rehabilitative Custody and Supervision program, and the offender has been in custody since the attack.
- The Crown changed its position after Supreme Court guidance, and Justice Krista Zerr adjourned on Feb. 26, saying, 'The practical, physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual toll of these offences is immense. The ripples are wide and still widening'.
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Saskatoon girl gets maximum three-year youth sentence for setting schoolmate on fire
A Saskatoon judge has accepted a joint submission from the Crown and defence, imposing a three-year youth sentence on a now 16-year-old girl who tried to kill a fellow student by setting her on fire. Giving her decision on Monday in Saskatoon Court of King’s Bench, Justice Krista Zerr touched on how the crime has left many people dealing with grief, anger and fear. The victim, who was 15 at the time, watched the proceedings from another room in …
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The teenager who sprayed her classmate with a liquid before lighting the fire will appear for the last time on Monday to receive her sentence.
·Montreal, Canada
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