- A 16 year old girl, who was 12 when she participated in the killing of Audrey Cooper in October 2006, was recently caught hiding inside a closet in her parents' home after running away from her court-ordered treatment.
- Crown is seeking to have her kept behind bars until she turns 18.
- Defence wants his client to be given another chance at freedom.
- Queen's Bench Judge is expected to rule on the case today.
- Cooper was a random target. She was beaten until she was unrecognizable, stripped and then urinated on by a group of laughing teens who tossed loose change on her body as they fled.
- The 34 year old suffered 64 separate injuries in the unprovoked attack, including seven broken ribs, a lacerated liver, swelling that shut both of her eyes and bleeding on the brain. Police arrested four suspects -- the 12-year-old girl, two 14-year-old girls and a 15-year-old boy. Three of the suspects remain before the courts.
- The teen girl was sentenced last year to the maximum 3 year sentence under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
- She received 7 and a half months pre-trial custody as credit with the remaining 28 and a half months of her sentence served under community supervision, which would lead up to her 18th birthday.
- She was ordered to live at a local group home under 24-hour supervision until she is no longer a youth. She was warned that any breaches means the rest of her sentence could be converted to jail time.
- Defence said that the facility is supporting her release from custody. His client grew up in a climate of abuse and neglect and was even taught how to snort cocaine by her mother.
I think that this teen should be given another chance at freedom. I agree with the Defence in that she comes from a difficult background of abuse and neglect and should be given another chance at rehabilitation. These factors could have been part of the cause of the crime she helped to commit. She was probably influenced by the teens she was with and her background probably lead to her gravitate towards those "type" of peers, who shared similar circumstances. She did not do anything dangerous after she escaped and I support rehabilitation and feel she should continue to serve her time in the community with conditions.
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