A newborn child at that. An unnamed Canadian woman is in the news this weekend, ehum, after a Montreal court ruled on her rather unusual punishment for killing her newborn child. According to documents obtained by The Daily News (no names were attached), the 43-year-old woman unexpectedly gave birth in July 2016 at her home.
And then, it happened. Her baby ended up dead in a trash bag with severe head wounds, because, she apparently didn’t know that she was pregnant and shocked that she had given birth. Now, a Montreal court has ruled that for the next five years she must submit and take a pregnancy test every six months.
Yes you read that right.
The court ruled that she was non-psychotic and had amnesia, therefore, her argument that she didn’t know she was pregnant the entire time (regardless of how weird that sounds) stood.
Critics, however, aren’t thrilled at the idea of punishments of such kind arising for nothing short of manslaughter.
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