Woman charged in death of 14-month-old child on Alberta reserve

Details
Category: Canada News
Published Tuesday, December 15, 2015
CTV News

MASKWACIS, Alta. - RCMP have charged a woman in the death of a child on the Samson Cree reserve south of Edmonton.

See Full Article

Police say EMS responded to a report of a child in distress on Dec. 5.

First responders pronounced a 15-month-old child dead and an autopsy determined the death was a homicide.

Following an investigation by Maskwacis RCMP, a 28-year-old woman has been charged with second-degree murder.

She was to appear in Wetaskiwin provincial court on Tuesday.

RCMP have declined to identify the woman or release the gender of the child.



Advertisements

Latest Canada & World News

  • N.W.T. ignored in Alberta monitoring suspension despite agreement: leaked emails

    Canada News CTV News
    EDMONTON -- Alberta suspended environmental monitoring for oilsands companies without notifying the Northwest Territories, despite a legally binding agreement to do so. The omission is revealed in a series of emails between the two governments obtained by The Canadian Press. Source

  • Near final results show Polish President Duda wins 2nd term

    World News CBC News
    Poland's conservative President Andrzej Duda narrowly won a second five-year term in a bitterly fought weekend election, defeating the liberal Warsaw mayor, according to a near-complete count of votes. The state electoral commission said that Duda had 51.21 per cent of the vote based on a count of votes from 99.97 per cent districts. Source

  • Nunavut's high rate of police-related deaths 'obviously worth looking into,' says data expert

    Canada News CBC News
    Inuit in Nunavut are dying during interactions with police at a rate significantly higher than in Yukon, Northwest Territories and Ontario, according to data collected and analyzed by CBC and a statistical expert in criminology. That trend is especially apparent since 2010, with a rate of police-related deaths in Nunavut more than 14 times higher than both Yukon and Ontario and more than three times higher than the Northwest Territories. Source

  • Global Affairs official says giving Meng Wanzhou CSIS documents could hurt Canada

    Canada News CBC News
    The director general for Global Affairs Canada in South Asia says disclosing sensitive information from CSIS to Meng Wanzhou as part of her battle against extradition could risk Canadian lives, further damage Chinese-Canadian relations and even compromise the fight against COVID-19. Source

  • Organizers of Hong Kong's Tiananmen vigil appear in court

    World News CTV News
    HONG KONG -- The organizers of a vigil commemorating China's bloody 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square appeared in a Hong Kong court on Monday on charges of inciting others to participate in an unlawful assembly. A total of 13 people were charged over the June 4 vigil, including Lee Cheuk-Yan, who chairs the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic and Democratic Movements of China. Source

  • Zindzi Mandela, daughter of Nelson and Winnie, dies at 59

    World News CTV News
    JOHANNESBURG -- Zindzi Mandela, the daughter of South African anti-apartheid leaders Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, has died aged 59. State television South African Broadcasting Corporation has reported that Mandela died at a Johannesburg hospital early Monday morning. Source

  • Near final results show Polish president Duda wins second term

    World News CTV News
    WARSAW, POLAND -- Poland's conservative President Andrzej Duda won a narrow majority in a bitterly fought weekend election, defeating the liberal Warsaw mayor, according to a near complete count of votes. The state electoral commission said that Duda had 51.21 per cent of the vote based on a count of votes from 99.97 per cent districts. Source

  • New Zealand mosque gunman to represent himself at sentencing

    World News CTV News
    WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND -- The Australian white supremacist who admitting killing 51 worshippers in a mass shooting at two New Zealand mosques has dismissed his lawyers and will represent himself when he is sentenced next month. Source

  • Washington NFL team to retire nickname on Monday: reports

    World News CBC News
    The Washington Redskins plan to announce Monday that they will retire their controversial team nickname, multiple outlets reported Sunday night. One source told Sports Business Journal that the team "felt it was important to remove any doubts as to the future of the name. Source

  • 'Plate-shaming' is happening in Atlantic Canada as locals fear those from outside the 'bubble'

    Canada News CTV News
    TORONTO -- Atlantic Canada’s reputation for being warm and welcoming has long been a source of pride. But instead of hospitality, the pandemic is exposing a glimpse of hostility aimed at those who are assumed to be outsiders. Source