Canadian teen killed her family

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A 13-year old Canadian girl has been found guilty of murder, for helping her adult boyfriend stab her parents and younger brother.

The girl, who was 12 at the time of the killings, is believed to be the youngest person in Canada to be convicted of murder.

The court in the town of Medicine Hat, Alberta, will sentence her next month.

A date for the trial of her boyfriend, also charged with murder, has not yet been set.

The girl, known throughout the proceedings as "JR" because of a Canadian law protecting minors, faces up to six years in jail.

Prosecutors said that she had been angry with her parents who had grounded her, in an attempt to sever her relationship with Jeremy Steinke, a man 11 years her senior. The judge, the defence and the prosecution all agreed that JR's boyfriend, who had claimed to friends he was a werewolf, killed both parents in an early-morning attack, but that she had helped plan the killings.

The girl testified that he then ordered her to kill her eight-year old brother.

JR said she stabbed him once with a kitchen knife, but could not kill him. The girl claimed that her boyfriend then grabbed the boy and slit his throat.

In Canada, children cannot be sentenced as adults until they reach the age of 14.

JR, who was 12 at the time of the killings, was just old enough, by six months, to even be charged with a criminal offence.