Teen admits to high-school knife attack
17-year-old male pleaded guilty Wednesday to violent crimes Dec. 13 incident at Leo Hayes
A teenage boy accused of assault with a knife and possession of a stolen car in a violent incident in December at a school on Fredericton’s north side will remain in custody pending sentencing.
The 17-year-old Fredericton youth - whose identity is protected under the provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act - appeared in Fredericton youth court Wednesday by telephone from the Miramichi Youth Campus, the province’s youth jail.
Duty counsel Melinda Ponting-Moore said she was appearing as an agent for the teenager’s defence counsel, legal aid staff lawyer Gwynne Hearn, and she’d been instructed that the boy was seeking to plead guilty to two offences.
The youth admitted to Dec. 13 counts of assaulting another boy with a knife and breaching a youth probation order.
Similarly, the identity of the youth victim in the case can’t be revealed, given the protections under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.