A teenager who was convicted and jailed for spraypainting anti-Semitic graffiti on several sites, including a Holocaust memorial, will be released.
In 2009, the youth was arrested after surveillance video caught him in the act of defacing the memorials.
He spent two months in jail after his arrest, and at his sentencing hearing, prosecutors aren't asking for any more jail time.
Instead, the Crown is asking for the teen to spend six months in deferred custody, which could be house arrest.
The defence says that the teen's thinking has changed dramatically since he met with two Holocaust survivors. "It really put a face on the individuals who were residents in the area affected by the offence," says Jim Lutz, defence attorney. "I think it's a great example of how, when you get two groups of people together, the young person really had a chance to understand what was going through their minds, their thought process as to why they were so upset by it."
The teen will be sentenced next month.
