Canada: Melfort mother gets 4 years for attempted murder of kids

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'An unnamed mother, who pleaded guilty to attempting to kill her two young children in a murder-suicide, received a prison sentence in Melfort on Thursday.

Justice R.S. Smith handed down a sentence of four years in a penitentiary, less one year for time served in remand.
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Defense counsel brought up the fact that after her arrest, the woman had gone through a psychiatric assessment that found her to be suffering from severe paranoia and depression.

The defense went on to suggest that at the time of the incident the mother was not in the proper state of mind due to her depression. She stated the mother had said she had suffered a lot from abuse from men and she wanted to save her children from that abuse.'