US EditionHearing in September on whether Quebec daycare crash accused is high-risk offender
- A court hearing starting on September 15, 2025, will determine whether Pierre Ny St-Amand qualifies as a high-risk offender following his involvement in a fatal bus crash at a daycare near Montreal that resulted in the deaths of two children.
- The hearing follows Ny St-Amand’s February 8, 2023 bus crash into the daycare, and his recent finding of not criminally responsible due to likely psychosis during the incident.
- During the week-long hearing, prosecutors will argue for high-risk offender status, while the defence will challenge its constitutionality in separate proceedings.
- Two children lost their lives in the crash: Jacob Gauthier, who was four years old, and a girl aged five called Mava, whose last name is protected by a publication ban. Additionally, six other children sustained injuries.
- If declared high-risk, Ny St-Amand would be subject to strict psychiatric facility conditions, indicating ongoing legal scrutiny on the use of this designation introduced in 2014.
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Hearing in September on Whether Quebec Daycare Crash Accused Is High-Risk Offender
A court hearing will take place in September into whether a man who killed two children by driving a city bus into a Montreal-area daycare should be declared a high-risk offender. Superior Court Justice Éric Downs today set aside one week beginning Sept. 15 to hear arguments from prosecutors and the defence team for Pierre Ny St-Amand. Last week, the 53-year-old former bus driver was found not criminally responsible after Downs agreed with a joi…
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Hearing in September on whether Quebec daycare crash accused is high-risk offender
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The hearing to declare Ny St-Amand a high-risk offender scheduled for September - Canada French
LAVAL — Hearings will be held in September to assess whether the individual responsible for the bus accident in a Laval day-care centre is a high-risk offender. Justice Éric Downs of the Superior Court of Quebec reserved a week, starting on September 15, to hear the arguments of the prosecutors and the defence team of Pierre Ny St-Amand. Last week, the former 53-year-old bus driver was declared not criminally responsible after Judge Downs had ac…
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