{"id":503246,"date":"2026-02-27T15:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/503246\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T15:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:01:08","slug":"sentencing-set-in-edmonton-in-child-murder-case-that-saw-crown-and-police-at-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/503246\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentencing set in Edmonton in child murder case that saw Crown and police at odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A judge is set to <a href=\"https:\/\/edmonton.citynews.ca\/2026\/02\/25\/relatives-of-alberta-girl-found-dead-in-hockey-bag-give-victim-impact-statements\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">deliver a sentence today <\/a>in the death of an eight-year-old girl found dead in a hockey bag in central\u00a0Alberta.<\/p>\n<p>The case surrounding the death of Nina Napope has also made headlines because Edmonton police, in a highly unusual move, have openly criticized the work of Crown prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>Ashley Rattlesnake is set to be sentenced in Edmonton after pleading guilty to manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p>Court has heard Nina was in the care of Rattlesnake when her body was found in the hockey bag in the back of a truck on the Samson Cree Nation in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy showed the girl had multiple broken bones amongst other injuries, and the Crown is seeking a nine-year sentence.<\/p>\n<p>The Crown earlier found itself at odds with Edmonton police, who publicly accused prosecutors of potentially committing a travesty of justice by seeking a shorter prison term for Rattlesnake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A judge is set to deliver a sentence today in the death of an eight-year-old girl found dead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-503246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-edmonton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503246","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=503246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}