Canada's youngest triple murderer will serve 8½ years under specialized care for the premeditated killings of a family.
The girl was 12 at the time of the murders of a former Sudbury man, his wife and son.
The girl will serve her punishment under the little used Intensive Rehabilitative Custody and Supervision, or IRCS, program, designed by a team of psychologists and psychiatrists with an eye to rehabilitation.
She will spend four years in custody, beginning with treatment in Edmonton's forensic psychiatric facility, followed by a term of imprisonment in a young-offenders centre. The remaining 4½ years will be spent under supervision in the community.
Only about 30 young people across the country have been sentenced under an IRCS order.
The teen's boyfriend, Jeremy Steinke, a man almost twice her age, is also charged with three counts of first-degree murder.
