Youth admits to life-threatening assault
Crown is seeking adult sentence for 17-year-old boy; defence opposes it, asks for hearing
A teenage boy admitted Wednesday he wounded another youth and endangered his life last month, and the prosecution is seeking to have the offender sentenced as an adult.
The 17-year-old capital-region boy - whose identity is protected by 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, to answer to two serious charges.
The defendant was charged with committing an aggravated assault on a youth victim by wounding him and/or endangering his life, and with possessing a knife for a purpose dangerous to the public peace, both on Nov. 7 in Fredericton.
Defence lawyer Ben Reentovich said his client was electing to be tried in youth court and pleading guilty to both counts.