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Man accused in fatal Quebec daycare bus crash not criminally responsible

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Quebec bus driver Pierre Ny St-Amand found not criminally responsible
WATCH: Quebec bus driver Pierre Ny St-Amand found not criminally responsible – Apr 29, 2025

A Quebec Superior Court judge has declared a man not criminally responsible for killing two children and injuring six others when he drove a bus into a Montreal-area daycare in 2023.

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Justice Éric Downs has accepted the joint recommendation of criminal non-responsibility from the Crown and the defence in the case of Pierre Ny St-Amand.

The judge says Ny St-Amand was unable to discern right from wrong when he crashed into the daycare in Laval, Que., on Feb. 8, 2023.

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