Victim impact statements today in trial of accused in fatal Quebec daycare bus crash

May 1, 2025 | 1:02 AM

LAVAL — Families affected by a deadly bus crash at a Montreal-area daycare in 2023 are scheduled to read victim impact statements today in court.

Earlier in the week a Quebec Superior Court judge accepted a joint recommendation from the Crown and defence that Pierre Ny St-Amand is not criminally responsible for killing two children and injuring six others.

During his trial, doctors said the 53-year-old former city bus driver was experiencing psychosis and didn’t know right from wrong when he drove a bus into the daycare on Feb. 8, 2023.

He killed four-year-old Jacob Gauthier and a five-year-old girl named Maëva, whose family name is covered by a publication ban at the request of her parents.