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.
For the rest of the day the court was scheduled to hear testimony on whether the woman—whose name cannot be published to protect the identity of her daughter—should be released from detention while she receives medical treatment….