13 Year-Old Girl Gets 12-Year Sentence For Trying To Kill Classmates

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Girl, 13, Sentenced In Poisoned Milk Case

Lakeview, Oregon - A 13-year-old girl from Lakeview will be a ward of the Oregon Youth Authority until her 25th birthday, after plotting to kill classmates by putting rat poison in their milk.

On Thursday, Lake County Circuit Judge Lane Simpson sentenced Stephanie Quesnoy to the custody of the state's juvenile corrections department.

Oregon Youth Authority officials will decide whether Quesnoy will be sent to a juvenile facility after she is evaluated for possible behavioral and mental problems.

Quesnoy and Holley Sweeney, 14, were found guilty earlier this month of planning and executing a pact to slip d-Con rat poison in the milk cartons of two Daly Middle School classmates during a lunch hour last September.

Authorities think the plan was hatched to retaliate after one of the victims put shaving cream in Quesnoy's hair at a slumber party a week before the attempted murders.

Sweeney also was tired of hearing about the other victim's rich grandmother, authorities say. No one was injured in the plot.

Quesnoy has been in the custody of the state Department of Human Services since 1999 because of unspecified home problems. Since February, she has been a part of the Boys and Girls Aid Society of Oregon, which offers at-risk youth various treatment programs.

Simpson has recommended that Quesnoy be evaluated by a psychologist for attention deficit disorder.

Prosecutors say Sweeney had shown a history of anger issues and told a therapist she hears voices.

The grandfather of one of the victims said at Sweeney's sentencing that he doesn't want to see Quesnoy or Sweeney locked away until they're 25. His granddaughter and the two girls had been friends for years, he added.

"It's one of those things that never should have happened," he said.