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A B.C. Supreme Court sentencing hearing scheduled to last two weeks, ended after the second day. The defence was unable to offer any argument to against the two teens receiving an adult punishment for pleading guilty to first degree murder.

Reports by psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers who evaluated the Langford teens, said they showed little remorse for their crimes and diagnosed them with extreme psychopathy for their lack of empathy.

The younger teenB次元官网网址檚 feelings of superiority over others, history of violent attacks on his mother and peers, anti-female behaviour, and sexual attraction to corpses and the pain and suffering of others were indicators of necrophilia and sexual sadism.

The older teen was harder for experts to analyze because he was more reserved and admitted to lying in interviews, but he had been receiving counselling since kindergarten for beating up other students.

Experts found him to have conduct disorder with childhood onset, psychopathy and characteristics of the same sexual disorders as the younger teen.

The reports said both youth were very likely to re-offend and should be monitored for decades after their rehabilitation in the prison system.

The defenceB次元官网网址檚 independent experts also analyzed the teens, but their reports mirrored the original findings

The defence submitted only one piece of evidence to the court: a three page letter written by the younger accused after the first day of the hearing.

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Citing case law, Crown Prosecutor Peter Juk said the most similar youth offense occurred in Ontario when a young man, at the urging of his jealous girlfriend, stabbed to death a girl heB次元官网网址檇 once dated. Both the boyfriend and girlfriend received adult sentences in that case.

In the Proctor case, the teens committed not only murder, but prolonged sexual assault.

On March 18, 2010, the teens lured Proctor to the younger teenB次元官网网址檚 home on Happy Valley Road, duct-taped a wadded up sock in her mouth as a gag, bound her wrists and ankles with duct-tape, and beat and sexually assaulted her for many hours.

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They attempted to suffocate Proctor by duct-taping a plastic bag over her head and checking her pulse several times to see if she was dead. When she continued breathing, they shut her in a freezer. When that did not kill her either, they finally strangled her to death.

The pair then did obscene things to her remains, the details of which are too disturbing to print.

The next day, they burned the remains under a bridge on the Galloping Goose trail near Millstream creek. Her body had to be identified using dental records.

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The judge offered the older teen an opportunity to speak for himself, but he did not wish to address the court.

During police interrogation older teen claimed the 16-year-old had forced him to take part. But when pressed to explain how a much smaller teen, two years younger and B次元官网网址渘o more threatening than Harry PotterB次元官网网址� could make him do anything, he offered no explanation.

If sentenced as adults, both teens will receive the mandatory sentence of life in prison. In recognition of their youth, parole will be available to them after 10 years, not 25 years.

The youth sentence for the same crime is maximum six years in prison and four years of community supervision.

But as adults the two could be placed on a registry of sexual offenders and monitored for life. Their identities could also be revealed publicly.

Several psychiatrists evaluating the teens found they are at significant risk to re-offend. On this basis Juk concluded it would be in the public interest to sentence the teens as adults.

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A Supreme Court judge will announce Monday what sentence the teenage killers of Kimberly Proctor will face.

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