The Youth Criminal Justice Act The Bathtub Case
The Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA) is an act in respect of criminal justice for young persons and to amend and repeal other acts. It is made up of communities, lawyers, business people, families, parents and so many more. Canada is a party to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and recognizes that young persons have rights and freedoms, including those stated in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Canadian Bill of Rights, and have special guarantees of their rights and freedoms. There are certain requirements for an adult sentence that this case upholds. Their motive, planning and age show that these two sisters have a right to be sentenced as a adult, generally having a length of 25 years to life.
The real motive for Sandra and Elizabeth Andersen to kill their mother Linda Anderson was based on greed and power. Thus, insuring the fact that the two sisters should have received an adult sentence. “Probation continued to be the most common type of youth court sentence, imposed in 58% of all guilty youth court cases in 2011/2012.” Most of these cases involved theft or minor crimes therefor these girls were part of that 42% that don’t get off that easy. The major reason these girls needed to be arrested was their initial motive to drown their mother. While talking to the police and their confession to the family friend the daughters stated the mother was "wasting...money on alcohol" as well as had abusive boyfriends that turned out to be false. The only truth they got from them was they were unhappy that their friends had "better things like swimming pools and clothes". Then found search history of the girls planning on killing the mother. Elizabeth and Sandra Andersen believed that after they killed their mother, they would get insurance money. This compensation, the sisters resolved, would be spent on a trip to Europe with their friends as well as a large house, with a backyard filled with marijuana. This murder was
The real motive for Sandra and Elizabeth Andersen to kill their mother Linda Anderson was based on greed and power. Thus, insuring the fact that the two sisters should have received an adult sentence. “Probation continued to be the most common type of youth court sentence, imposed in 58% of all guilty youth court cases in 2011/2012.” Most of these cases involved theft or minor crimes therefor these girls were part of that 42% that don’t get off that easy. The major reason these girls needed to be arrested was their initial motive to drown their mother. While talking to the police and their confession to the family friend the daughters stated the mother was "wasting...money on alcohol" as well as had abusive boyfriends that turned out to be false. The only truth they got from them was they were unhappy that their friends had "better things like swimming pools and clothes". Then found search history of the girls planning on killing the mother. Elizabeth and Sandra Andersen believed that after they killed their mother, they would get insurance money. This compensation, the sisters resolved, would be spent on a trip to Europe with their friends as well as a large house, with a backyard filled with marijuana. This murder was