Sentencing arguments underway for girl who pleaded guilty to assault in fatal swarming

The Canadian Press

· Posted: May 06, 2025 1:26 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

Sentencing submissions are underway successful tribunal for a teen miss who pleaded blameworthy to battle successful the fatal swarming of a stateless Toronto man.

The miss was acceptable to look proceedings for manslaughter successful the decease of 59-year-old Kenneth Lee when she pleaded blameworthy to the lesser complaint past month.

The Crown is asking the tribunal to condemnation the miss to 50 days of assemblage supervision, followed by 12 months of probation, portion the defence is arguing that she should get a reprimand oregon an implicit discharge.

Court has antecedently heard that Lee was successful a downtown Toronto parkette successful December 2022 with a person erstwhile they encountered a radical astir midnight.

An agreed connection of facts work successful tribunal said the miss was contiguous for astir two-thirds of the onslaught and witnessed others hitting, kicking and stomping connected Lee, and that she threw a tiny entity astatine him and filmed his bloodied look portion others yelled and spat astatine him.

The miss past near the parkette portion the onslaught was inactive underway and returned astir 2 minutes aft it ended, lone to find the radical had taken off, tribunal has heard.

A structure idiosyncratic asked her to emblem down an ambulance, which she did earlier leaving to find the group, tribunal heard.

Paramedics took Lee to St. Michael's Hospital, wherever helium died.

Police arrested 8 girls betwixt the ages of 13 and 16 successful the hours aft the incidental and charged them with second-degree murder.

In total, 7 person pleaded blameworthy to lesser charges — five to manslaughter, 1 to battle and 1 to battle with a limb and battle causing bodily harm.

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

She tried to plead blameworthy to manslaughter but her plea was rejected by the Crown.