Girl, 13, killed family over grounding (Canadian girl with 24 year old boyfriend)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ ^ | July 12, 2007

[lowbridge]

A jury has found a 13-year-old Canadian girl guilty of murdering her parents and her younger brother in revenge for being grounded and having her computer privileges revoked.

A jury in Medicine Hat, Alberta, found the teenager guilty on three counts of first-degree murder after only three hours of deliberation.

The bodies of her father, 42, mother, 48, and brother, 8, were found in the family home in April 2006. They had been stabbed 41 times.

During the trial, the girl told the jury that her boyfriend, Jeremy Steinke, who was 11 years her senior and had claimed to friends he was a werewolf, killed her parents and then ordered her to stab her brother.

Testimony included details of how her brother begged for his life before his throat was slashed. The girl testified her brother said, "I'm scared. I'm too young to die."

She said Steinke broke in before dawn, attacked her parents and ordered her to stab the boy. His body was found in his bedroom among blood-soaked toys. Her parents' bodies were in the basement.

Prosecutors argued that the girl helped plot the crime before fleeing with Steinke to a neighbouring province. Steinke's murder trial date has yet to be set.

The girl, who cannot be named under Canadian law, was 12 at the time of the murders in April, 2006. She is the youngest person to be convicted of murder in the country's history, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported.

She faces up to six years in detention and four months of probation, and is due to be sentenced on August 23.

Defense lawyer Tim Foster had tried to show that the girl talked to friends about wanting her parents dead for forbidding her any contact with Steinke but never believed the killings would be carried out.

On the stand last week, the girl said such talk was just idle "venting."

"She always felt responsible. The question was whether legally she was responsible," Mr Foster said.

After the killing, Steinke left the girl at the scene. She met up with him hours later and had sex with him, she said.

The girl and Steinke, who is now 24, were found the next day sleeping in a truck parked in a small town in Saskatchewan.

[SIDENET]

That's it.

Now, she's REALLY grounded!

[Norman Bates]

Only 6 years. Dear God!

[Vinny]

“She faces up to six years in detention and four months of probation, and is due to be sentenced on August 23”
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What a joke.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I’m sorry, I don’t find anything about this amusing.

Too bad they can’t hang the boyfriend.

[wastedyears]

Premediated murder

Charge her as an adult.

But charge her with 100,000 kW.

[Retired Greyhound]

demon possessed

[Red Badger]

Six years for 3 pre-meditated murders?.......What kind of laws do they have up there???????.........

[TexasCajun]

Jeremy Steinke

[Smedley]

After the killing, Steinke left the girl at the scene. She met up with him hours later and had sex with him, she said.

So incredibly disturbing

[Gay State Conservative]

I’ll bet that the boyfriend was involved as well...at least as an accessory.

[ClearCase_guy]

The girl and Steinke, who is now 24, were found the next day sleeping in a truck parked in a small town in Saskatchewan.

And her life went all down hill from there ...

[Smedley]

Here's a link to soe details about this girl - a goth freak who admired Jeffrey Dalhmer

http://www.crimelibrary.com/news/original/0107/1702_canadian_murders.html

[Resolute Conservative]

Evil is alive and well.

[TexasCajun]

Jasmine Richardson

Canadian article from Jan.

[chaos_5]

double plus ungood

Societal [de]evolution at its best.

[Lost Dutchman]

I hate to say it, but the best answer I can think of for this problem is 7.62 for both of them.

[madprof98]

I notice it’s “up to” six years. She’ll probably get off entirely. After all, she’s an orphan.

[reagan_fanatic]

demon possessed

Exactly.

[marsapan]

This is so sick...and yes, the girl should be punished. But she’s only 13. The 24-year old boy should be put away for life, for killing the family and mentally abusing the 13 year old, imo.