Youth and the Law by Daniel J. Baum

Author:Daniel J. Baum
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Published: 2014-01-08T00:00:00+00:00

Other Trials and Sentences in the Case

The remaining six teens were tried and either found or pleaded guilty in individual youth court trials where they were charged with assault causing bodily harm. Their identities were shielded under the then Young Offenders Act. But the sentences handed down by the youth court judge were: one year, nine months, six months, one year probation, and one stayed and one conditional sentence.

There was a history of violence among the six teens. Their identity is referred to by letters, since publication of their names was prohibited:

A., age fifteen, pleaded guilty to a charge of assault causing bodily harm to another girl at the same time as sentencing in the Virk trial. At the time of the second assault, A. was taking a mandatory anger management course at her school. The reason: She had punched a fellow student. A. saw herself as a friend of Ellard and Glowatski. While Glowatski was in jail, A. accepted collect calls from him.

B., age fifteen, saw herself as A.’s best friend. B. said she was drunk the night Virk was murdered. The trial judge gave B. a choice of house arrest — if she agreed to have no contact with A. The alternative was close custody, that is, institutionalization. B. chose close custody.

C., age fifteen, thought Virk had spread rumours about her. C. lived in a group home. The trial judge said that C. had “all the elements, quite frankly, of sociopathic conduct.” C. showed no remorse.

D., age fifteen, lived in the same group home as C. She had a lengthy record of assaults, theft, and breaches of probation. She was angry at Virk for allegedly having sexual relations with her boyfriend.

E., age fourteen, had tried to set Virk’s hair on fire.

F., age fifteen, knew Virk. Apparently, she attempted to have the beating stopped. F. did this at a point when she felt Virk had “had enough.”

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