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VICTORIA — A British Columbia judge is set to decide whether to sentence two teens as adults for repeatedly sexually attacking and beating 18-year-old Kimberly Proctor until she suffocated, using a knife to mutilate her body and then dumping her body in a freezer before setting it on fire.

The teens, now 17 and 18, but 16 and 17 at the time of the extensively planned slaying — pleaded guilty in October to first-degree murder. THEVANCOUVERSUN

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