A 14-year-old woman knowledgeable Saskatoon cops “voices told her to do things” within the minutes after a 15-year-old schoolmate was lit ablazeSept 5 at Evan Hardy Collegiate.
The data turned Judge Sanjeev Anand examined the safety on an software Thursday in younger folks court docket. The 14-year-old, billed with arson, worsened assault and tried homicide, confirmed up by video clip.
The implicated can’t be referred to as underneath the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
The Crown notified that, if {the teenager} is based responsible, it’s going to actually search for to have her punished as a grownup.
The safety obtained an analysis to find whether or not the 14-year-old was not criminally liable. Anand supplied the demand to investigate whether or not, on the time of the claimed offense, {the teenager} was experiencing a psychological sickness.
Under questioning about by Anand, court docket listened to that {the teenager} had truly been underneath the remedy of a registered nurse specialist and had truly been recognized with a “psychotic disorder.” She had truly moreover been confessed to well being heart this earlier summer season season for emergency state of affairs psychological remedy.
She has truly moreover been recognized with autism.
Witnesses previously knowledgeable CBC what they noticed unravel that day.
Grade 9 trainee Sophie Hubbard said she and her good buddy Lexxi Sparvier have been leaving social researches course. Hubbard said she noticed a woman put fluid from a black container onto yet one more woman and lift a hand in direction of the assorted different woman’s head, after that noticed the sufferer ablaze within the hall. Neither trainee noticed what was utilized to spark the hearth.
“I just paused for five seconds and then I yelled, ‘Fire!’ and ran out with Sophie,” Sparvier knowledgeable press reporters on the school garden a few days after the case. “I’m still shaking a little.”
Teachers have been screaming for the sufferer to roll on the bottom to assist snuff out the hearth and utilized fireplace extinguishers because the fires contaminated part of a close-by wall floor, each pupils said. The emergency alarm went off additionally, they included.
“I didn’t believe it was real,” Hubbard said.
The 15-year-old continues to be in well being heart.
