Interesting Article about Younger Sister

The book basically paints a picture of her being a sociopath. The movie showed a bit of that by making her emotionless and unaffected.

I think the book nailed it.

http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2009/03/10/bathtub_girl_still_lies_a nd_manipulates_therapist_tells_court.html

'Bathtub Girl' still lies and manipulates, therapist tells court
A 21-year-old convicted killer seeking release from federal prison needs months of psychological counselling before she's ready to move on with her life, her former therapist says.

Published on Tue Mar 10 2009
A 21-year-old convicted killer seeking release from federal prison needs months of psychological counselling before she's ready to move on with her life, her former therapist says.
The Mississauga woman remains "stuck" in the same emotional and psychological state she was in before she helped murder her mother, Dr. Janine Cutler told a Brampton court today.

"She is still in the offence cycle and exhibiting the same pattern of behaviour she did prior to the murder," Cutler said.

The younger sister of Canada's infamous Bathtub Girls wants to be released from prison so she can live in an Ottawa halfway house and go to university.
Justice Bruce Duncan is reviewing her status as part of her mandatory annual review under Canada's youth laws.

Crown prosecutor Mike Cantlon is opposing her release as well as the release of her 22-year-old sister, who wants to live in a Barrie halfway house and eventually study engineering at the University of Waterloo.

To make his point concerning the younger sister, Cantlon today referred to some of Cutler's comments made about her to her probation officer for a recent progress report

In that report, Cutler said she "lies and manipulates" until she gets what she wants.
"There is no limit to what she will do," to get her way, Cutler said.
She felt that was still the case for the inmate, who remains in a medium security unit, a classification she is grieving at the Grand Valley Institution for Women in Kitchener.

She's yet to deal with many childhood and family issues or the "triggers" that led to her role in her mother's murder, Cutler said.

She has little empathy for others, sees herself above others, gets annoyed and irritated easily, needs to always be in control, has distorted thinking, is very demanding and refuses to see things from other's points of view, Cutler said.

The woman, her brown hair now cut short with drooping bangs down her cheeks, listened intently from the prisoner's box throughout today's lengthy hearing.
At 15, she and her older sister, then 16, murdered their 43-year-old alcoholic mother by drowning her in the bathtub of their Mississauga townhouse in January 2003.

They're seeking their release from prison less than three years into their 10-year youth sentences for first-degree murder.

Duncan, who sentenced them in June 2006, rejected their bid for freedom during last year's annual review.

He's expected to decide whether or not to grant their release later this summer.

Regardless, they will be eligible to apply for federal parole on Oct. 29, with their mandatory release after serving two-thirds of their sentence on March 11, 2013.

Court heard today that the younger sister made a series of complaints against Cutler and tried to get her removed as her prison therapist.

"She said I screamed and yelled at her during our sessions, that I didn't listen, that she didn't trust me," said Cutler, who denied the accusations.
Both women are eligible for day parole but they haven't applied.

The sisters were dubbed the "Bathtub Girls" by the media during their sensational eight-week trial in the fall of 2005 for the Jan. 18, 2003 slaying of their mother.

They were the first sisters to ever murder their mother in Canada. They fed her booze and Tylenol-3 pills, and then drowned her.

They got away with the cold-blooded killing for more than a year until a friend went to police with information that their mother's death wasn't a booze-fuelled accident but a calculated and planned murder complete with an Oscar-worthy 911 call.

Although adults, their identities and the identity of their dead mother remain secret because they were convicted as youths and are in the unique position of serving a youth sentence in an adult women's prison.