{"id":637148,"date":"2026-04-29T21:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/637148\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T21:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:26:08","slug":"sentencing-hearing-begins-for-calgary-man-who-caused-crash-that-killed-9-year-old-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/637148\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentencing hearing begins for Calgary man who caused crash that killed 9-year-old girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Crown says a Calgary man who pleaded guilty to causing a crash that killed a nine-year-old girl in 2024 should serve between 9 1\/2 and 10 1\/2 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Duane Nepoose has admitted to dangerous driving causing death, dangerous driving causing bodily harm, robbery and fleeing a police officer in the 2024 crash.<\/p>\n<p>Court heard Nepoose stole a minivan and, as he was speeding through traffic, ran a red light and caused the crash that left Victoria Desjardins dead.<\/p>\n<p>The nine-year-old died in hospital after the crash on Dec. 26, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>During sentencing arguments Wednesday, prosecutor Todd Buziak pointed to psychiatric reports that described Nepoose as a high risk to violently offend again.<\/p>\n<p>Several members of Desjardin\u2019s family were in the courtroom for the hearing and 13 victim impact statements were to be read into the record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Crown says a Calgary man who pleaded guilty to causing a crash that killed a nine-year-old girl&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-637148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637148","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=637148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}