Alberta woman who killed family doing well in treatment, but still has curfew

MEDECINE HAT, Alta. – An Alberta woman who helped kill her family when she was just 12 must still abide by a curfew.

A Medicine Hat judge heard the woman, who will soon turn 20, is the “poster child” for young offender rehabilitation.

Court heard she is going to post-secondary school, holding down a stable job and is a low risk to re-offend violently.

But Justice Scott Brooker decided to keep the 11:30 p.m. curfew in place, citing the young woman’s best interests.

The woman, who can’t be named, has 2 1/2 years remaining on her 10-year sentence for the 2006 murders of her mother, father and younger brother in their Medicine Hat home.

She was convicted along with her then-boyfriend, Jeremy Steinke, who was 23 at the time and received a life sentence.