Posted on 07/12/2007 10:18:39 AM PDT by 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.
Canadian ones.
Though we have alot to brag about. We let child molestors go on probation because they're just too short for prison.
Mindless stupidity knows no bounds...I’m grounded???...I’ll show you!
I realize that she was a minor at the time, but only six years?......This could spark a wave of parent murders by angry pre-teens all across the country, knowing they will only get 6 years...........
A thirteen year old who plotted and completed the murder of her family deserves life in prison. She is NOT innocent.
If she wanted to be treated like an adult who can have sex with her adult boyfriend, the courts should sentence her like an adult.
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Satan must be proud.
A very shortened life, pref
“A thirteen year old who plotted and completed the murder of her family deserves life in prison. She is NOT innocent.”
I disagree, she should be dropped through a trap door with a rope around her neck.
Evidently Canadian law only provides for a max of 10 years for a minor, and only 6 can be served in incarceration.
Jasmine Richardson and Jeremy Steinke to Stand Trial for Murder
Hang with the devil? They both should get the death sentence.
“Regardless of whether or not she is convicted, Jasmine’s age will prevent her from serving a lengthy sentence. According to Canadian law, Jasmine, now 13, can only be sentenced to a maximum of 10 years in prison, and no more than six can be served while in custody. Jeremy, on the other hand, whose preliminary hearing is set for March, could be sentenced to life without parole for 25 years.”
This paragraph makes no sense. She can serve a max of ten years - but only 6 while in custody??? What does that mean?? Aren’t you in custody while in prison?
Stinky can be sentenced to life without parole - for 25 years?? Which is it, life or 25?
I can’t disagree with you.
Too bad they can’t hang the boyfriend AND the girl.
A law saying that people under 13 cannot be charged as an adult.
The evidence says that she slit her own 8 year old brother's throat.
She will be out of jail before she is old enough to buy a beer (and drinking age in Alberta is 19).
When she is released, the Canadian government will provide her with a new identity if she requests it and a wiped-clean record.
As you may recall, in the UK a few years back a couple of 10 year olds abducted, systematically tortured and then murdered a toddler.
They were out of a prison a few years later and given new identities by the UK government.
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