Mother of 7-year-old who died in Laval in 2021 pleads guilty to failing to come to her aid
Posted February 17, 2023 2:30 pm.
The mother of a 7-year-old girl who died in Laval in 2021 pled guilty to failing to aid the child who was badly injured after self-inflicted burn wounds.
The 38-year-old woman wiped away tears while putting in her guilty plea in court on Thursday which cancels her trial.
A pathologist determined the young girl died from burns to 70 per cent of her body which were self-inflicted.
The mother admitted she failed to provide the necessary aid to her child between Dec. 30 2020 and Jan. 3 2021.
She was first charged with assault and criminal negligence causing death.
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The prosecutor read a statement of facts in court Thursday which stated the girl began suffering from serious mental health issues in 2019 and by 2020 it was getting much worse, adding she did not want to see her mother.
At the end of December her mother noticed a blood stained piece of clothing in the laundry.
The woman’s niece told her the girl had injured herself and the mother was purchasing necessary bandages and cream from the pharmacy, but let her niece treat her daughter and did not ask questions.
On Jan. 4, 2021 the mother called 911 after a family member informed her that the girl was not breathing.
The court also shed light on the mother’s living situation, coming to Canada for an arranged marriage with an older man, where she lived with in a dysfunctional home with his family, specifying she let her niece care for the child because she had studied to be a doctor.
The prosecution recommended a two-year prison term.
