Dont know what to think of this. Is there any punishment that can fit this crime?
Can this girl be rehabilitated to be productive in society and stay out of the justice system in future?
My biggest worry is that the way the law works, once shes completed the 8 1/2 years and walks out the door , thats the end of it... no monitoring of her, no follow-up, no help for her, no nothing since she was a minor when the crime happened.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl.../National/home
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Alberta girl sentenced in murders
DAWN WALTON
Globe and Mail Update
November 8, 2007 at 1:34 PM EST
MEDICINE HAT, ALTA. — An Alberta girl convicted of murdering her parents and little brother will serve an 8 ˝year sentence, an Alberta court ruled today.
The girl, now 14, but just 12 at the time of the slayings, will spend 4 ˝ years in custody and four years under supervision. She will have completed her sentence by the age of 22.
The girl, known only as J.R., will serve her sentence under the little used Intensive Rehabilitative Custody and Supervision or IRCS program, which involves a spell in a psychiatric hospital, young offenders centre and a group home.
Only about 30 young people across the country have been sentenced under an IRCS order.
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