An 18-year-old Brandon woman who caused almost $8,000 of damage to her former group home was sentenced on Tuesday to one year of probation with community service and ordered to pay full restitution.

“The amount of damage here is incredible,” Judge Patrick Sullivan said in Brandon provincial court.

The woman pleaded guilty to a single count of mischief ahead of her sentencing. Since the woman was a youth at the time of the offence, the Sun cannot name her under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

An articling student with the Crown Attorney’s Office, Easton Lacey, said the Crown’s position was a conditional discharge by way of one-year probation, including 40 hours of community service and a stand-alone order to pay back the restitution in full.

A conditional discharge is used for minor off

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