{"id":504007,"date":"2026-02-27T23:02:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T23:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/504007\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T23:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T23:02:24","slug":"sentencing-set-in-edmonton-in-child-murder-case-that-saw-crown-and-police-at-odds-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/504007\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentencing\u00a0set\u00a0in\u00a0Edmonton\u00a0in\u00a0child murder case that saw Crown and police at odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A judge is\u00a0set\u00a0to deliver a sentence today\u00a0in\u00a0the death of an eight-year-old girl found dead\u00a0in\u00a0a hockey bag\u00a0in\u00a0central Alberta.<\/p>\n<p>The case surrounding the death of Nina Napope has also made headlines because\u00a0Edmonton\u00a0police,\u00a0in\u00a0a highly unusual move, have openly criticized the work of Crown prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>Ashley Rattlesnake is\u00a0set\u00a0to be sentenced\u00a0in\u00a0Edmonton\u00a0after pleading guilty to manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p>Court has heard Nina was\u00a0in\u00a0the care of Rattlesnake when her body was found\u00a0in\u00a0the hockey bag\u00a0in\u00a0the back of a truck on the Samson Cree Nation\u00a0in\u00a02023.<\/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\u00a0Edmonton\u00a0police, 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\u00a0set\u00a0to deliver a sentence today\u00a0in\u00a0the death of an eight-year-old girl found dead\u00a0in\u00a0a hockey bag\u00a0in\u00a0central Alberta. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-504007","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\/504007","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=504007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}