One of the older girls who pleaded guilty in the swarming death of Kenneth Lee is set to be sentenced for manslaughter on Friday morning.
The girl, who was 16 at the time, went to trial in Superior Court with one of her co-accused. After lawyers for the Crown and the defence presented all the evidence in the case, the girl entered the guilty plea. The girl’s co-accused at trial, facing conviction for second-degree murder, is still awaiting a decision in her case.
In an earlier hearing, Crown prosecutor Sarah De Filippis and the girl’s lawyer Ayderus Alawi made a joint recommendation on sentencing to the judge of 15 months probation and no additional jail time.
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De Filippis noted the girl had already spent 288 days in custody, 79 of which were in a more secure facility for youth where she was routinely strip searched. Like the other girls, the Crown said she was entitled to a sentence reduction because of strip searches where she and the other accused were made to strip completely naked, against ministry policy.Ìý
Eight teens, aged 13 to 16, were all originally charged with second-degree murder after Lee was fatally stabbed in a downtown parkette in December 2022. Lee, 59, and his female companion were visiting near a temporary shelter where the woman was staying. Lee, who was also homeless at the time, intervened after some of the girls tried to steal a bottle of alcohol from the woman.
In the more than two years since his death, almost all of the girls have pleaded guilty to lesser offences. Here is the status of their cases:
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