13-year-old boy gets 18 months for sex attacks on victims aged six, nine and 11
Maria Canton
Northern News Services
Yellowknife (Mar 21/01) - A 13-year-old Lutsel K'e boy who committed three "predatory and calculated" sexual assaults on three different girls will go into detention for 18 months.
Territorial court Judge Michel Bourassa described the boy's behaviour as frightening.
"It was predatory, calculated and it's depressing...he has just added three little girls to the cauldron of unhappiness and dysfunction that already exists," he said before sentencing the boy on Tuesday.
Crown attorney Sue Kendall painted a portrait of a young boy in a downward spiral of dangerous behaviour, and said she had no choice but to recommend that he be removed from the community in order to protect society.
"He seems unaffected by the horrors that he has perpetrated on these young girls," she said.
"He preyed on these girls and he clearly had a plan."
Court heard that on the first occasion last fall, an 11-year-old girl awoke to find the accused in her bedroom during the middle of the night. He was touching her under the covers.
When she threatened to scream he covered her mouth and then left.
Later that fall he accosted the same girl as she was walking home.
He simulated having sex with her before she escaped and told her mom, who went to the RCMP.
In November 2000, the boy attacked a nine-year-old girl, dragged her to a vacant house, threw her on a couch and proceeded to simulate having sex on her before ejaculating on a wall.
Following the incident, court heard, the girl was plagued with psychological problems and was eventually medevaced to Yellowknife.
Most recently, in January 2001, the boy called the house of a seven-year-old girl and asked her who was home with her.
She responded she was alone.
Soon afterwards the boy appeared in the house, he had a knife and clear tape.
He took the girl out of the house and started to walk away with her, but not before two other girls called out to them.
The boy fled into the bushes. The girl told her mom, who went to the RCMP.
A psychological report and a predisposition report both painted the boy as remote, unresponsive and seemingly unaffected by what he had done.
He was also sentenced on charges of unlawfully entering a dwelling place and break and enter with intent, to be served concurrently.
A DNA sample will be taken from the boy and he will be on probation for six months following his release.
