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B.C. authorities issue public warning about woman convicted of killing animals
VANCOUVER – The B.C. justice ministry is warning the public about the release of a 25-year-old woman who was convicted of brutally killing animals.
The ministry issued a public notification that says Kayla Bourque is a violent offender with an escalating criminal history.
The warning says she poses a high risk to reoffend and plans to live in New Westminster, B.C.
Bourque has also been convicted of killing animals without lawful excuse and possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose.
The ministry says 47 court-ordered conditions mean Bourque is on a 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew, can't own any animals or possess knives except for food preparation.
A past decision by the B.C. Court of Appeal says she told a psychiatrist that she hanged and dismembered a family dog in 2009 and killed a family cat in a similar way the following year.
That decision also says she told a Simon Fraser University student that she wanted to kill a homeless person and was studying forensics to learn how to evade police.
The New Westminster police says it's working with ministry and correctional officials to ensure the community is safe.
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4 responses
She needs to be locked away indefinitely
She should not even be out it not right too people and animals mostly too animals
Sounds like she should be in the jug!
What is wrong with our justice system? This is according to the experts in the field precursors to a psychopath, serial killer. This thing has stated it wants to kill a homeless person. Why was this person not deemed and incarcerated as a dangerous offender? Ahhhh but some person has to be murdered first! Then that person gets a joke of a sentence! A life for a life! No parole! No dragging families of victims through the system time and again to keep these individuals locked up and denied parole. Sick system, sick people, sick government!