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First teen sentenced in Kenneth Lee case gets 15 months probation

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Read the following which details her physical actions. There were cameras everywhere.

First girl sentenced in swarming death avoids more jail time (thestar.com)
This link has significantly more information than the CP24 link in the OP's post.

From the thestar link:

"The judge called the attack on 59-year-old Lee “vicious and cowardly” and found that the girl, who sat silently before him in a sixth-floor Toronto courtroom, had been “central to the physical assault” but did not wield the knife nor was she the one who stabbed Lee — ultimately leading to his death."

"The Crown was seeking a maximum three-year sentence, two of those years to be served in custody, less the time the girl spent in pre-sentence custody, with the final year under a supervision order."

"... the fact she was strip-searched on seven occasions while in detention, including three times illegally — against a court order."


If this is the end of her involvement in Court for this case, I think the Judge was lenient, weighing the strip searches more heavily than I would have.

Most likely the accused who wielded the knife used to stab Lee is among the four who did not plead guilty. I see no significance to the fact that, at age 13, THIS girl had no prior criminal record.

If THIS girl has agreed to testify against the four who entered not guilty pleas, I think the sentencing is fair. As far as I know, that information hasn't been revealed yet.

The individuals who performed the strip searches 'against a court order' ought to have their employment terminated. Time off with pay isn't acceptable, Union or no Union.
 

K Douglas

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15 months in custody and 15 months probation for a 13 year old girl doesn't seem too lenient. She's shown remorse and has responded positively to the intervention programs.
I'm actually more curious to see what the older girls who actually were responsible for the death get.
 

princekwekua

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I am glad not to be born to a single parent in ghetto hell. I am glad I couldnt go freely out of my home at 11 pm as a teenager. Single poorer parentage is spewing epidemic of crime in GTA and urban areas around the world. Sad.
 

Vinson

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The video showed they had no mercy on Kenneth Lee

Girl acquitted of murder in swarming of homeless man

In the end, not one of the eight girls who viciously swarmed a Toronto homeless man has been convicted of murder.

How wrong that seems.

SC was the last girl standing, the final teen in the gang of eight to face judgment for her role in the brutal and senseless slaying of Kenneth Lee.

But not just any girl — prosecutors allege she’s the actual killer who fatally stabbed the 59-year-old with a knife or small scissors during the chaotic violence that lasted just over three minutes in the parkette at Front St. and University Ave. five days before Christmas 2022.

In his ruling Friday afternoon, Superior Court Justice Philip Campbell said SC, 14 at the time, “likely” inflicted the fatal wound but it hadn’t been proven beyond a reasonable doubt — so he found her not guilty of second-degree murder but guilty of the lesser offence of manslaughter.
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She had tried to plead guilty to manslaughter before her trial but it was rejected by the Crown. She now joins five of her co-accused who did plead to manslaughter, while the other two pleaded to lesser offences.

“SC participated in a group attack on Mr. Lee. For at least the last minute and 42 seconds, she was in possession of a pair of small scissors. At least once, she sank the scissors intentionally into Mr. Lee’s body. During the last wave of the attack, she intended to use the scissors, and she may have done so. The attack was a vicious one driven by what seems to be irrational and inexplicable malice. The attack killed Mr. Lee,” he said in reading his verdict.

Despite her “irrational viciousness” in wielding the scissors, Campbell wasn’t convinced she had the state of mind required for murder — that she either intended to kill him or to cause bodily harm she knew would probably cause his death.

“The word murder is not a shorthand for an extreme level of moral failure or a high degree of viciousness,” he concluded. “It demands a very specific mental orientation by the accused toward the causing of death. This mental orientation must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. The evidence here does not meet that burden. This was a manslaughter and was very close to the most serious example of that offense, but it was not a murder.”

Crown attorney Sarah De Filippis advised the court that prosecutors haven’t decided whether they’ll be seeking an adult sentence.

Initially, all eight girls — aged at the time between 13 and 16 — were charged with second-degree murder.

The routine stripsearches they endured while in youth detention facilities lead to criticism by both judges hearing their cases — Justice David Rose in the Ontario Court of Justice and Campbell in Superior Court — and led to Campbell declaring them unconstitutional. Both judges took the girls’ mistreatment into consideration to lower their sentences.

As a result, none of the seven sentenced so far have had to do more time in custody. Will SC be the first?

lt all began over a bottle of booze belonging to Lee’s friend.

When Lee stepped in to protect her, the angry mob descended on him like a “bunch of wolves on top of a piece of meat,” a shelter worker would later say.

From the start, SC was one of the most violent, Campbell said. “She literally jumped on Mr. Lee’s body.”

Horrific video of the attack shows the girls had no mercy on the slight man — a beloved son, brother and uncle who was working on personal issues and hoped to return home for Christmas.

But they didn’t see him as a person.

 
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Jail or not, in 25 years she will still have no skills ,no education and will be a menace to society.
This teenage SCUM with 90% certainty is damaged beyond repair. If in 10 years they are being pimped and are on LL scamming that would be a win for our almost totally useless rehab system.
 

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When you stab somebody with a knife you do so knowing that it could cause death. But I guess the Crown couldn't prove that it was SC's stab that caused the death of Mr. Lee. Can anyone recap the sentences of the 7 girls so far. Perhaps SC will still get the harshest sentence.
 
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We don't know the extent to which this person was involved, so it's entirely possible that what was imposed by the Sentencing Judge's is appropriate. One would expect that those least involved and most willing to co-operate would go to trial first. It's also probable that part of the deal will involve testifying for the Crown against other defendants.
Keep this up and we will be a lawless society a lot sooner than we think.
 
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