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.
“A short drop and a sudden stop solves problems in many cases.”
At the very least they prevent additional ones by the same biological life form.
That’s where you and I differ. I believe it should be liberally applied.
Murders (intentional ones)
Rape
Child Molestation
Infanticide
Lying politicians and Lawyers. (no I’m not joking)
She was 12 when she killed her parents
Insanity....
Remember this is Canada. Good thing she didn't spank her family, then she would have REALLY been in trouble.
sure. “the devil made me do it”
It depends upon what you believe in, I guess. I happen to believe that satanic evil exists and is a strong influence upon the weak minded.
well, i’ll agree with you if you’ll call it demonic. i don’t believe there are that many in the world the rate direct satanic influence. also, satan is not omnipresent.
whatever problems this child had, altho we agree where the temptation came from, the fault more likely lays at her parents feet for not raising her with the strength, knowledge and faith to combat it.
however, what i was referring to, were the “likes” that you wrote off as devilish. i won’t argue with you on tarot cards or wicca, as we have different opinions and neither of us will sway on them. however, the rest are not inheirantly evil. altho the argument may be given that the combination of all of them may show tendencies.
She’s either going to kill someone while in custody, or get out and do it again as an adult. Too bad someone else has to die at the hands of someone like her before something more permanent can be done.
Why is this in chat, sure looks like real news to me.
I agree. She also should die.
We do it to dumb animals, who don't know better and act according to their basic nature.
My argument for executng children criminals, and the retarded is very simple: not executing her is an insult to the hundreds of thousands of children, and goths, and the retarded who never murder anyone. So it's reasonable to assume that even those impacted groups know the difference between right and wrong.
Take a life deliberately? Pay the penalty. No exceptions, no repeat offender.
Well, if you've ever been on a jury for murder or other serious crime, you'd realize that that is a blink of an eye...
Hard for deliberations to be any shorter, if the jury does its job properly.
No, he is saying that the mentally retarded should be allowed to execute criminals. :-)
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