Mother spared trial in filicide

A woman accused of killing one of her daughters and wounding the other will not go to trial now that both the Crown and the defense have accepted she is not criminally responsible. The woman’s been under treatment for a year and a half since the April 2020 incident in Villeray.

Update: Not so much an update, just a bit more detail from Radio‑Canada posted a few days after the last item. The court heard from two psychiatrists who diagnosed schizophrenia, psychosis and borderline personality disorder, supporting the notion, agreed on by the Crown and the defense, that the woman be declared not criminally responsible.

And yet more detail from TVA. It’s clear from these accounts that the woman was profoundly detached from reality. I don’t think we need more.