Quebec Mom Who Abandoned Toddler Along Ontario Highway Not Criminally Responsible

Quebec Mom Who Abandoned Toddler Along Ontario Highway Not Criminally Responsible
An Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) patch is seen in Ottawa on Sept. 29, 2024. The Canadian Press/Spencer Colby
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The Montreal mother who abandoned her three-year-old girl in a rural Ontario field in June has been declared not criminally responsible for the crime.

Quebec court Judge Bertrand St-Arnaud ruled on Monday that the 34-year-old woman could not be held criminally responsible by way of mental disorder. She had been charged with criminal negligence causing bodily harm and unlawful abandonment of a child.