Evan Hardy Collegiate, a high school where an assault and fire had taken place in Saskatoon, Sask. is shown on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024. Police reported that a School Resource Officer was able to take a 14-year-old female suspect into custody and a 15-year-old female was transported to hospital with what are believed to be serious injuries. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Liam Richards
A Saskatoon judge has sentenced a teen girl to three years for setting a fellow student on fire in a school hallway.
Three years is the maximum sentence for attempted murder under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
The girl must serve two years in intensive rehabilitative custody followed by one year in the community with supervision.
The sentence was jointly recommended by both Crown and defence lawyers, after the 16-year-old pleaded guilty last year.
The victim was 15 when she was set on fire in the lunchtime attack at Evan Hardy Collegiate in September 2024.
Court heard the friendship between the two girls spiralled into obsession and threats, before the offender doused the victim with lighter fluid and set her ablaze.
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