{"id":504098,"date":"2026-02-28T00:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T00:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/504098\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T00:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T00:03:07","slug":"woman-sentenced-to-8-years-for-killing-of-girl-found-in-hockey-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/504098\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman sentenced to 8 years for killing of girl found in hockey bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of an eight-year-old girl found dead in a hockey bag in central Alberta has been sentenced to eight years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>A judge says Ashley Rattlesnake is to be given about four years credit for time she has already served in custody.<\/p>\n<p>The case surrounding the death of Nina Napope made headlines because Edmonton police openly criticized the work of Crown prosecutors while saying a light sentence would be a travesty of justice.<\/p>\n<p>Court of King\u2019s Bench Justice Jody Fraser says the police commentary did not factor into the decision.<\/p>\n<p>Court heard Nina was in the care of Rattlesnake when her body was found in the hockey bag in the back of a truck in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of an eight-year-old girl found dead in a&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":{"0":"post-504098","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\/504098","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=504098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504098\/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=504098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}