Guilty pleas entered over deaths at Ahtahkakoop
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Posted: Oct 23, 2012 4:59 PM CST
Last Updated: Oct 23, 2012 10:04 PM CST
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Kimmy Randall Bear pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the deaths of two men on the Ahtahkakoop First Nation. (RCMP)Two men have pleaded guilty to manslaughter charges in relation to the deaths of William Ahenakew and Trez Sparvier-Scott, who were killed in a home on the Ahtahkakoop First Nation.
Kimmy Bear and Carl Anthony Albert had been charged with second-degree murder over the killings, which took place in November of 2011.
During proceedings Tuesday, court heard that Bear and Albert had broken into a house looking to steal drugs and money.
They were drunk and, during the break-in, they stabbed Ahenakew with a sword and struck Sparvier-Scott in the head with a dumb-bell weight.
Carl Anthony Albert also pleaded guilty to manslaughter. (RCMP)They also set the house on fire. According to an autopsy report, Sparvier-Scott was still alive when the fire was started.
There was a 4-year-old girl in the home, hiding in an upstairs bedroom, at the time. She was rescued but did suffer some injuries from the fire.
Sabrina Sparvier lost a son, Sparvier-Scott, and a brother, Ahenakew, in the attack.
"No one should ever know that their kids are tortured and taken out and ripped out of their lives," the woman said after the court procedings. "It's not a safe world. It doesn't feel like a safe world anymore."
A third man who took part in the break-in, Dominic Ahenakew, tried to stop the attacks. He pleaded guilty to a robbery charge.
The judge on the case accepted the Crown's submissions on sentencing and imposed sentences of 15 years for Bear and Albert, and two years less a day for Ahenakew.
(With files from CBC's Ryan Pilon)Share Tools
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