In November of 2022, Major was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years for the first-degree murders.
McConnell said the justice system failed them, by not letting them know a convicted sex offender — who Alberta Justice says has a criminal record dating back to the early 1990s and has been convicted of sex crimes — lived in their apartment building.That spurred the creation of “Noah’s Law,” which has grown from a grassroots petition into an official“It was very hard to find closure in a situation like this. This is one thing I can do for them. I can’t protect them.
Court documents show that Major “…did for a sexual purpose touch [victim’s name] a person under the age of sixteen years directly with a part of his body…” Four years ago, the Edmonton Police Service warned residents that Major, a convicted sexual offender, would be living in the Edmonton area.Upon release in 2017, Edmonton police issued a warning about Major, saying he was being closely monitored by the EPS behavioural assessment unit and investigators had reasonable grounds to believe that Major would “commit another sexual offence against a female, including children, while in the community.