A teenager from Nasonworth, near Fredericton, has been sentenced to 3.5 years in a community-based rehabilitation and supervision program, for the second-degree murder of his step-father last year.
The young offender, who was 17-years-old at the time, and cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, pleaded guilty to the charge in August, and was in court in Burton on Monday for the sentencing hearing.
The 34-year-old victim died from multiple stab wounds to the head, neck, back and face, in the family home in Nasonworth on May 13, 2024. He had been in the youth’s life since he was 2 years old.
Justice Richard Petrie followed a joint recommendation from the Crown and defence to allow the teen to serve his sentence under an Intensive Rehabilitative Custody and Supervision (IRCS) Program for youth with mental health needs who are convicted of a serious violent offence.
The youth has already served 18 months at the Miramichi Youth Campus juvenile detention centre since his arrest, and will serve two more days at the facility before his community placement begins later this week.
Impact on family
In a victim impact statement read in court by Crown prosecutor Christopher Lavigne, the victim’s mother described missing her son on a daily basis, and the chats they would have 3 or 4 times a week. Life is like a dark tunnel, she said, when you don’t see the light.
“I wish I could wake you up and see you standing there,
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