Judge Declares Accused in Fatal Quebec Daycare Bus Crash Not Criminally Responsible

The scene outside a daycare centre in Laval, Que, on Feb. 9, 2023, where a bus crashed into the building killing two children. The Canadian Press/Graham Hughes

A Quebec Superior Court judge has declared a man not criminally responsible for killing two children and injuring six others when he drove a city bus into a Montreal-area daycare in 2023.

Justice Éric Downs today accepted the joint recommendation of criminal non-responsibility from the Crown and the defence and concluded Pierre Ny St-Amand was unable to discern right from wrong at the time of the crash.