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True Crime Brewery

Runaway Devil: The Richardson Family Murders

True Crime Brewery

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True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2017

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

At what age are we responsible for our actions? Laws and opinions differ, but there are certain acts that seem to transcend age in their brutality and lack of conscience. When 12-year old Jasmine Richardson participated in the murder of her entire family, a community and those of us looking on were shocked. Was she […]

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True Crime Brewery contains disturbing content related to real life crimes. Medical information is opinion based on facts of a crime and should not be interpreted as medical advice or treatment.

0:13.0

Listener discretion is advised. Then now 16 year old girl is currently in closed custody at the Alberta Hospital in

0:38.4

Edmonton in order to begin her reintegration her treatment team and her

0:42.2

lawyers say she needs more exposure to the outside world.

0:45.0

We have to appreciate of course that she's been in custody for four years and it's a big four years given that she's now 16 and so

0:52.0

certainly there have been a number of changes and as the

0:54.8

treatment team indicated she's not in a normal situation and so she's a very

0:59.5

different person now than she was then.

1:01.4

Crown prosecutor Ramona Robbins did express some issues with the report that was given to the court by the treatment team.

1:07.0

Specifically, a part that mentioned the girl was having issues understanding the severity of the murders.

1:13.0

We all know she'll be out in the community one day that's inevitable

1:16.0

and what kind of person is she going to be, what kind of adult is she going to be.

1:19.0

So those are the types of questions I have daily,

1:22.0

and especially when there's an annual review.

1:24.1

If her treatment team decides to plan any trips off of the Alberta Hospital

1:28.4

facility they will need to submit those plans in detail to the

1:31.6

Solicitor General who will then approve the plans,

1:34.1

deny the plans, or make amendments to them to assure that there is no risk to the

1:38.0

community. I have every confidence in the Solicitor General's Department.

1:42.1

I work with them every day and so I have every confidence that whatever risk is presented to the public

1:47.0

would be very carefully managed and no changes will occur without them making sure that the whole community is safe.

1:54.0

I think it's going to be beneficial to her in treatment in terms of gradual reintegration instead

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