N.S. group apologizes for including woman convicted in a brutal killing on a panel

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The Elizabeth Fry Society of Mainland Nova Scotia is apologizing after it hosted a panel discussion on violence that featured Marissa Shephard. Shephard was sentenced to 12 years in jail after she pleaded guilty to manslaughter and arson in the death of Baylee Wylie.

A Nova Scotia group that supports at-risk women and girls is apologizing after it hosted a panel discussion on violence that featured a woman convicted in the brutal killing of a teenager.

Marissa Shephard was listed as a panel member for the event last week organized by the Elizabeth Fry Society of Mainland Nova Scotia.

The panel was titled "Navigating the Legal System and Community Supports After Violence, Victimization, and Loss." It was the second of three panels supported through the Logan Alexandra Russell Fund, which was created in memory of a Cape Breton woman who was killed in an act of intimate partner violence.

"The fund honours Logan’s beautiful life and loving, empathetic nature, while also striving to protect others from the violence that caused her death by contributing to intimate partner violence prevention efforts," a website for the event reads.

In 2021, Shephard was sentenced to 12 years in jail after she pleaded guilty to manslaughter and arson in the death of 18-year-old Baylee Wylie, who was stabbed 200 times.

Wylie's body was found in Shephard's burned out townhouse in Moncton, N.B., in December 2015.

Shephard was one of three people sentenced in connection with Wylie's killing.

Devin Morningstar was found guilty of first-degree murder in 2016, while Tyler Noel pleaded guilty in May 2017 to second-degree murder and arson with disregard for human life, and both received life sentences.

The Nova Scotia chapter of the Elizabeth Fry Society issued a public statement Monday night saying it made a serious mistake while planning the event.

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