Canada: Court upholds infanticide defence

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2011-03-03 04:09

Article here. Excerpt:

'TORONTO — The Court of Appeal for Ontario has ruled that mothers who kill their babies may use an infanticide defence and cut time off their sentence.

The court ruled Wednesday that a woman can be charged with infanticide even if there is evidence of murder.

"If the Crown proves that the accused committed a culpable homicide, the jury must then decide the nature of the culpable homicide. The jury should be told to consider infanticide first," the ruling says.

"If the Crown fails to negate at least one of the elements of infanticide beyond a reasonable doubt, the jury should be instructed to return a verdict of not guilty of murder, but guilty of infanticide."'

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""If the Crown proves that the accused committed a culpable homicide, the jury must then decide the nature of the culpable homicide. The jury should be told to consider infanticide first," the ruling says."

Basically look to excuse a killer mother, how fucking sick. And why is infanticide less culpable?

Guess babies don't get equal protection... there should only be one murder and an equally rigorous standard for insanity.

Here is a good article on that http://news.mensactivism.org/node/15659

Also filicide offenders are no more psychotic than other murderers.

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Submitted by fondueguy on Fri, 2011-03-04 18:31