Quebec Court Designates Daycare Crash Driver High-Risk

A Quebec court has designated Pierre Ny St-Amand, the man found not criminally responsible for driving a city bus into a daycare center and killing two young children, as a high-risk offender, imposing strict limits on his confinement in a psychiatric facility.

Superior Court Justice Éric Downs issued the ruling on Monday in Laval, Quebec, a northern suburb of Montreal. St-Amand, a former city bus driver, was responsible for the February 8, 2023, crash at the daycare, which resulted in the deaths of a four-year-old boy and a five-year-old girl and injuries to six other children. In April 2025, Downs had determined that St-Amand was not criminally responsible due to a likely state of psychosis at the time of the incident.

The high-risk designation, requested by prosecutors under the Criminal Code, stems from assessments of St-Amand's potential for future harm. "The court grants the prosecutors' request it designates the accused as high-risk under the Criminal Code," Downs stated during the hearing. He elaborated that the decision was based on "a marked probability that the accused will use violence in a manner that endangers the life or safety of another person" and the "brutal...