The night he stabbed his mother more than 20 times, the voice inside his head said he had to kill or be killed.
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Thomas reviewed the facts of the case. The youth and his mother lived in a house divided into two apartments. The mother and son lived in the basement and one of youth’s sisters, her common-law spouse and their child lived upstairs. The youth, who was 15 at the time, was the youngest of seven siblings and the only one living with his mother.
By the time they got him to the end of the driveway, he had taken off his red underpants and was standing half-naked and silent in full view of several people who had gathered at the scene.Article content A forensic psychiatrist called by the defence to examine the youth, testified at the youth’s sentencing hearing that the youth was in Grade 10 but had failed his core Grade 9 subjects. He was often truant and preferred to smoke marijuana with his friends rather than attend classes.
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