{"id":130750,"date":"2025-09-09T08:24:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T08:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/130750\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T08:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T08:24:14","slug":"quebec-mom-accused-of-abandoning-her-child-in-rural-ontario-to-stand-trial-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/130750\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec mom accused of abandoning her child in rural Ontario to stand trial next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy Staff<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Canadian Press\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted September 8, 2025 5:54 pm<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tUpdated September 8, 2025 6:12 pm\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t1 min read\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0Montreal\u00a0mother charged with abandoning her three-year-old daughter in a field in rural Ontario has been scheduled to stand trial on Sept. 15.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The court has heard that the Crown and defence don\u2019t agree on all the conclusions of a psychiatric evaluation of the accused.<\/p>\n<p>As a result,\u00a0Quebec\u00a0court Judge Bertrand St-Arnaud will determine whether the 34-year-old woman, whose name is under publication ban, should be held criminally responsible for her actions.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756402221_230_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutor Lili Pr\u00e9vost-Gravel told reporters following the brief court hearing that the facts of the case are not in dispute \u2014 only the accused\u2019s mental state at the time of the alleged crime.<\/p>\n<p>The mother has been charged with criminal negligence causing bodily harm and unlawful abandonment of a child, and the results of her psychiatric evaluation have been placed under seal.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11402888\/rents-fall-11th-straight-month\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757406254_325_Rental-report-August-2025.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tRents in Canada fall for 11th straight month. Which cities saw biggest drops?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11402591\/joly-aluminum-tariff-relief-fund\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757406254_516_99b5054614dff31e76707d8c2f49fd1632cc92d6ccf25670ea014497220eefc8.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tJoly expects aluminum sector to receive \u2018hundreds of millions\u2019 in tariff relief\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>She had reported her daughter missing on June 15 at a store west of\u00a0Montreal\u00a0and told police she had no memory of the previous six hours or of the girl\u2019s whereabouts.<\/p>\n<p>After days of intensive searches, the girl was found alive and conscious on June 18 by Ontario Provincial Police officers near Casselman, Ont., about 120 kilometres west of\u00a0Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 8, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Crime<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Staff The Canadian Press Posted September 8, 2025 5:54 pm Updated September 8, 2025 6:12 pm 1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,2169,44,71517],"class_list":["post-130750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-crime","tag-news","tag-quebec-mother-abandoned-child"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}