Edmonton man who killed 7-year-old girl won’t be eligible for parole for 15 years

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Bella Rose Desrosiers,David Michael Moss,Edmonton Law Courts

A justice decided Friday that the Edmonton man found guilty of second-degree murder in the 2020 death of a seven-year-old girl won't be eligible for parole for 15 years. 

Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.Melissa Desrosiers, the mother of homicide victim Bella Rose Desrosiers, paid tribute to the seven-year-old outside the southeast Edmonton home where she died earlier this week. Our Breanna Karstens-Smith was there and has the latest.

A judge previously denied his defence of being not criminally responsible for stabbing the child to death with scissors in her Mill Woods home in front of her mother and little sister in May 2020. Bella’s mother Melissa tried to fight him off, court heard, and told her other daughter, who was four at the time, to run and hide in the bathroom.

 

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