The mother accused of abandoning her three-year-old daughter in a field near a highway in Ontario burst into tears on Friday as a judge told her she was being denied bail.
The 34-year-old woman, whose name is under a publication ban to protect the girl’s identity, was ordered to undergo a 30-day psychiatric evaluation at a hospital in the Montreal region.
She will return to court in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Que., west of Montreal, on Aug. 8.
The mother has been charged with criminal negligence causing bodily harm and unlawful abandonment of a child.
She reported her daughter missing on June 15 at a store in Coteau-du-Lac, Que., west of Montreal, and told police she had no memory of the previous six hours or of the girl’s whereabouts….