A woman convicted in the death of a 19-month-old child more than a decade ago should be acquitted, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled.
Tammy Bouvette was charged with second-degree murder but pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of criminal negligence after the 19-month-old girl she had been babysitting drowned in a bathtub in 2011 in Cranbrook, B.C. She was sentenced to 12 years in jail and probation.
An independent review into the case in 2020 found that Bouvette had not been provided disclosure from the Crown which included peer reviews of an autopsy report by Dr. Evan Matshes that said the conclusions in his report were “unreasonable.”…