{"id":803882,"date":"2026-07-15T17:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/803882\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T17:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:14:10","slug":"boy-who-killed-elderly-woman-in-pickering-ont-gets-maximum-10-year-youth-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/803882\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy who killed elderly woman in Pickering, Ont., gets maximum 10-year youth sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An Ontario Superior Court judge has handed down the maximum youth sentence of 10 years for a 15-year-old boy who pleaded guilty to murdering an elderly woman in Pickering, Ont., last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The boy apologized in court on Tuesday for repeatedly stabbing Eleanor Doney, an 83-year-old grandmother and retired kindergarten teacher, in an unprovoked attack as she was cleaning up her yard in May 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">His sentence includes six years in custody and four years of conditional supervision, which was agreed upon by the Crown and defence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The boy will receive a year of credit for the time he has spent in pre-sentencing custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Crown had argued against that credit but the boy\u2019s lawyer said it would help his rehabilitation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The boy, who was 14 at the time of the murder, cannot be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 15, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Ontario Superior Court judge has handed down the maximum youth sentence of 10 years for a 15-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,713,44,11867],"class_list":["post-803882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-justice","tag-news","tag-ontario-quebec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803882","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=803882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}