{"id":499471,"date":"2026-02-25T22:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/499471\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T22:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:39:09","slug":"relatives-of-alberta-girl-found-dead-in-hockey-bag-give-victim-impact-statements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/499471\/","title":{"rendered":"Relatives of\u00a0Alberta\u00a0girl found dead in hockey bag give victim impact statements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Family of an eight-year-old girl found dead in a hockey bag in central\u00a0Alberta\u00a0cried while reading victim impact statements during a sentencing hearing for the woman charged in the killing.<\/p>\n<p>They say Nina Napope was kind and loving and that her siblings wonder where she is.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Jody Fraser lifted a publication ban on the girl\u2019s identity at the request of her family.<\/p>\n<p>Nina\u2019s body was found in the hockey bag in the back of a truck on the Samson Cree Nation in Maskwacis, south of Edmonton, in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Court heard she suffered from chronic abuse and neglect while in the care of Ashley Rattlesnake.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was initially charged with murder and pleaded guilty last year to manslaughter, prompting Edmonton\u2019s police chief to urge Crown prosecutors to call off a possible plea deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Family of an eight-year-old girl found dead in a hockey bag in central\u00a0Alberta\u00a0cried while reading victim impact statements&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-499471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}