WINNIPEG – A Winnipeg teenager who tried to light a Jewish classmate’s hair on fire will be sentenced in January.
In November 2011, the 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, made two anti-Semitic remarks before using a lighter to try to set the 15-year-old girl’s hair on fire in their high school hallway.
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He was to be sentenced for assault with a weapon in June, but Judge Tim Preston ordered a forensic psychiatrist’s report before proceeding.
His next sentencing date was scheduled for Friday, but it was pushed back to January because the report was only recently completed.
The girl wasn’t physically injured by the attack.
* With a file from The Canadian Press
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