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MEDICINE HAT — Canada’s youngest multiple killer is scheduled to live more independently this spring, court heard Tuesday at a sentence review hearing, which marked one of the last chances the public has to learn of the woman’s progress.

The now 21-year-old woman was just 12-years-old when she helped her 23-year-old boyfriend, Jeremy Allan Steinke, murder her Medicine Hat parents and eight year-old brother in 2006.

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Known only as J.R. because her identity is protected under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, the woman was convicted of three counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to the maximum 10-year youth sentence.

J.R. is facing the end of her sentence next year and at Tuesday’s sentence review hearing in Medicine Hat Court of Queen’s Bench, her lawyer once again applied to have her curfew removed entirely.

But caseworkers who appeared beside the woman via CCTV urged Justice Scott Brooker to keep J.R’s existing Monday to Thursday nightly curfew to help her as she transitions to a more independent living arrangement in April or May.