A 1996 exhibit in Washington DC featured the remains of an Incan child sacrifice.
Posted on 09/16/2011 2:36:57 AM PDT by bronxville
The title isn’t fair — in Canada infanticide is a serious crime that can land you a tough five year sentence. That’s five years maximum, by the way. After all, it’s only killing a baby, nothing people need to really be punished for doing.
People in Canada who think killing an infant is the act of a morally bankrupt monster who deserves more time than the average murderer are getting another kick in the teeth, courtesy of Judge Joanne Veit. She let a woman convicted of murdering her newborn baby then throwing the body over her neighbor’s backyard fence walk out of court with a suspended sentence and probation.
According to Veit the murderess is the victim:
Queen’s Bench Justice Joanne Veit rejected the Crown’s call for a four-year prison term — which she described as “essentially” seeking the maximum five-year punishment when taking into account the time Effert has already spent behind bars and under strict bail conditions.
Based on the fact infanticide has not been struck from the Criminal Code and it has no minimum penalty, Veit said she feels Canadians “understand, accept and sympathize with the onerous demands pregnancy and childbirth exact from mothers, especially mothers without support.
“Naturally, Canadians are grieved by an infant’s death, especially at the hands of the infant’s mother, but Canadians also grieve for the mother,” said Veit.
I’m sure. The mother in question is Katrina Effert. In 2005, she gave birth to the child alone in her parent’s basement and when the baby started to cry, she strangled the boy with a pair of thong underwear and threw his body into her neighbor’s yard. When police investigated after finding the boy’s body, she initially claimed she was a virgin, but when caught in that lie she told cops she had given the baby to her boyfriend.
She strangled her newborn baby, threw the body into her neighbor’s yard, and then tried to frame her boyfriend for the murder. She did all this because, at 19, she was hiding her pregnancy from her mother.
During her first trial her behavior — specifically her attempts to cover up the crime and frame an innocent man — was used by prosecutors to show this wasn’t “infanticide” but murder.
In Canada, infanticide is assumed to be the product of a temporary mental illness – brought on by having a baby or by that mind-searing horror we call lactation. In Canada a woman commits infanticide if she murders a newborn before she has “recovered” from the effects of child birth, a process billions of women were able to handle for millions of years without losing their sanity.
A 1996 exhibit in Washington DC featured the remains of an Incan child sacrifice.
I’m also guilty of avoiding these types of threads. One feels so powerless to help them, but we must keep chugging, a brick at a time and all that it entails.
See, sometimes, you get something that you just don’t want, and then you can’t stand the sight of it, and then you throw it out. Look at me, I ordered an elaborate silk dress, but when I tried it on at home, it seemed different and it didn’t suit me at all.
I regretted the purchase and I threw it out.
I hope this explanation gives you a bit more understanding of the situation.
She's a lot tougher than a certain Florida jury.
Is there an age limit on the definition of infancy?
“Is there an age limit on the definition of infancy?”
I don’t think it matters. Murders and heinous crimes started to become common with Roe v Wade. When the Supreme Court ruled that innocent life is not sacred, evil was given a free pass to murder any one of any age.
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