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“I’m extremely happy that she is going to a federal penitentiary. That is where she needs to be,” the victim’s mother said of Oliver-Machado. “Let’s hope to God it never happens again and she gets the help that she needs.”

The adult prison sentence for Oliver-Machado was handed down Wednesday by Ontario Court Justice Diane Lahaie, who wasn’t convinced the manipulative Oliver-Machado would participate in optional rehabilitation programs in a youth facility or provincial jail now that she wouldn’t gain any leniency from the court by doing it.

Oliver-Machado was convicted as a youth, but prosecutors asked for and received an adult sentence.

Lahaie said she also doubted that a youth facility or provincial jail could offer the highly specialized programs needed to rehabilitate the narcissistic and sociopathic Oliver-Machado, who a psychiatrist determined was at a high risk of committing serious future violence.

The judge, who had found the teen pimp guilty of more than two dozen offences against five young girls, made the rare move of sentencing Oliver-Machado as an adult in November for her “despicable” crimes. Oliver-Machado received a 6½-year sentence in November, although more than three years of that time had already been served in youth detention.

She will now have to serve the approximately 2½ years remaining on her sentence in a women’s prison.

“Ms. Oliver-Machado’s specific needs are very complex. She had no positive role models at home, she was permitted to live her life as an adult from the time she was in elementary school,” said Lahaie.