Watch above: A second person has pleaded guilty to her part in the Saskatoon crash that claimed the lives of two teenagers in May. Meaghan Craig says the young offender will be sentenced next month.
SASKATOON – The word “guilty” was repeated over and over as a young offender involved in a fatal collision last May was in Saskatoon provincial court. The 18-year-old woman, who can not be named, entered guilty pleas to numerous charges Wednesday.
Watching the proceedings, were her family and the family of the two 17-year-old victims.
“She entered a guilty plea to being a party to the evade police charge that ultimately caused the death of Sarah Wensley, so she entered a guilty plea to that as well as a guilty plea to being a party to the evade police that caused death to James Haughey, as well as guilty plea to being a party to the offense to evade police and cause bodily harm to Kara Mitsuing,” said Crown Prosecutor Jaimie MacLean.
The young offender, who was the same age as the victims as the time of the crash, was a passenger in a stolen truck that smashed into a vehicle containing the three teens at 22nd Street and Avenue M.
In total, she pleaded guilty to five counts and appeared calm in the prisoners’ box while doing so.
“She also entered a guilty plea to being an occupant in a vehicle knowing that the vehicle had been taken without the consent of the owner and a guilty plea to a breach of her undertaking,” said MacLean.
At this point, the Crown was not in a position to comment on the range it will be seeking during sentencing.
Cheyann Peeteetuce, 21, who was driving the vehicle on May 5, pleaded guilty at Court of Queen’s Bench to seven charges, including two counts of dangerous driving causing death. She is scheduled to be sentenced on March 11, 2015.
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“This was a tragic circumstance that happened and those are consequences that these families will be dealing with and are dealing with,” said MacLean.
The young offender is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 8, 2015.
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