Calgary Herald, January 23, 2016

Drugging and forcing one woman into prostitution and trying to do the same to others landed a former Calgary woman an eight-year prison term Friday.

Justice Earl Wilson said Amanda Katherine McGee was lucky she pleaded guilty instead of going to trial, because she would have faced a life sentence if convicted. “If this had gone to trial and you would have been convicted by me I’d have given you life in prison, because you’re that dangerous of a human being,” Wilson said, in giving McGee a tongue lashing in court. “This is unspeakable, horrific, it’s evil,” the Court of Queen’s Bench judge said. “I don’t know if you’ve even got a soul, the criminality here is beyond the pale,” Wilson said. 

Defence lawyer Shelley Moore said McGee’s life had spiraled out of control because of a cocaine addiction. “She made some terrible, terrible decisions and did some terrible things,” Moore said. Wilson said the fact McGee pleaded guilty and spared her victims testifying meant the joint submission proposed by Moore and Faulkner was a suitable punishment.

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