I opposed it, and had to write and submit another impact statement in November 2021. She’d been in prison for about six months then. She applied for day parole around mid-2021.She also was granted leave for personal development in December 2021 and for most of January and February 2022. A few months into her sentence, she applied for escorted absences from the prison and, although I wrote back to oppose them, she was granted those absences, starting in February, 2021 (three months after she started her five-year sentence).

As a “registered victim of crime”, I had opted to be notified of any changes in her status while in prison, because I didn’t want to miss an opportunity to do a better job explaining what killing our son meant to us when her parole hearing came up. What I wasn’t prepared for was how quickly and repeatedly Norma Hunter was able to leave the prison under our current legal system.

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She was taken into custody and started her sentence on Nov. She also got a 15-year driving ban, which was welcome news. The court has to balance punishment with the killer’s rights and rehabilitation, and take previous sentences for similar carnage in P.E.I.

It seems there’s kind of a recipe to follow: plead guilty, sound remorseful, and you get the lighter version of sentencing. My family and I, and some of Jacob’s friends, tried our best to convey the damage and incomprehensible loss the killer caused through her selfish actions, but it didn’t really matter. Hunter had pleaded guilty and shed a few obligatory tears at the sentencing. has some of the strongest penalties for impaired driving, she likely would not get a long sentence for killing Jacob and leaving him to die alone on the side of the road. I knew going into the sentencing hearing that, although P.E.I. 10, 2020, the judge sentenced her to five years in prison. She had a couple of court appearances in Charlottetown that summer, then she pleaded guilty to impaired driving causing death with a blood alcohol level over double the legal limit, as well as guilty to leaving the scene of the crash.

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