A Maple Ridge woman has been found not guilty on a charge of failure to provide the necessities of life after a teenage girl died following a house party she’d been hosting.
The judge says Victoria Turley did provide care to 16 year old Shannon Raymond four years ago, in her house, on a July evening.
The judge says it was an “appropriate level of care” given to the girl.
The girl got severely drunk and had taken two hits of ecstasy while on a party bus earlier in the evening.
Turley spent several hours keeping watch over Raymond, even sleeping beside her, believing the teenager would sleep it off.
At six that morning, Raymond wasn’t breathing and Turley called 9-1-1.
She was pronounced dead in hospital.
It was very emotional in the packed courtroom when the verdict came down.
People on both sides were crying.
Outside court, Shannon Raymond’s emotional mother, Julie, spoke to the media.
“……at the end of the day, they are all going to have to live with the fact, that they had a role in Shannon’s death…they have to wake up each day and leave each day knowing that she would still be here if they had of done the right thing. If ONE of them had done the right thing, she’d still be here”
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