Last girl accused in Kenneth Lee homicide pleads guilty to manslaughter

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The past miss acceptable to look proceedings successful the decease of a stateless Toronto antheral has pleaded blameworthy to manslaughter.

Lee died successful 2022 aft helium was beaten and stabbed astatine a downtown Toronto parkette

The Canadian Press

· Posted: May 05, 2025 11:10 AM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago

Ken Lee, the 59-year-old unfortunate  of a deadly swarming onslaught  allegedly by 8  teenage girls successful  downtown Toronto successful  December 2022, is pictured successful  an undated photo.

Kenneth Lee died connected Dec. 18, 2022 aft helium was beaten and stabbed astatine a downtown Toronto parkette. (Toronto Police Service)

The past miss acceptable to look proceedings successful the decease of a stateless Toronto antheral has pleaded blameworthy to manslaughter.

The girl, 1 of 8 teens accused successful the decease of Kenneth Lee, was scheduled to spell connected proceedings connected a complaint of second-degree execution this week.

Lee, 59, died aft helium was swarmed by a radical of teens successful a downtown Toronto parkette successful December 2022.

Police arrested 8 girls betwixt the ages of 13 and 16 successful the hours that followed his decease and charged each of them with second-degree murder.

Seven of them person since pleaded blameworthy to lesser charges — 5 to manslaughter, 1 to battle and 1 to battle causing bodily harm and battle with a weapon.

One miss is awaiting a verdict aboriginal this period aft a judge-alone trial.

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