Murder: Mother gets away with it

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A mother has been found not guilty of contributing to her baby girl's death.

A Brisbane Supreme Court jury took less than one day to acquit the 39-year-old woman of one count of failing to supply the necessaries of life to her three-month- old child.

During the trial it was alleged she had failed to provide proper nutrition for the young girl, or to seek adequate medical care for her.

The court was told the baby had been born with a cleft palate, which made feeding more difficult than usual.

She had been suffering from chronic pneumonia and was underweight when she died in her mother's rented home at Mt Gravatt, in Brisbane's south, on July 3, 2004.

Her mother had originally also pleaded not guilty at the start of the trial to her daughter's manslaughter, however this charge was dropped mid-trial after Justice Peter Lyons ruled there was insufficient evidence to support the charge.

Mother Lied About baby

Baby located after man drove off

Police considering charges against woman in Markham , Ont., after she said her infant son had been abducted in a parking lot by a stranger

Dakshana Bascaramurty

Tuesday, Jun. 16, 2009

Police are considering charging a Markham, Ont., woman with public mischief after she told police her infant son had been abducted in a parking lot by a stranger, when he had just been taken by her husband.

The woman and her husband made a trip to a Costco store near Highway 7 and Woodbine Avenue this morning and got into an argument in the store's parking lot. The man left in the car, with the couple's one-year-old son in the back seat.

The woman called police at 9:40 to report a carjacking and child abduction. She described the abductor as an Asian male in his early 20s with dark, black hair. What she didn't tell them was that he was her husband.

“We've come to realize that it's a bit of a misunderstanding between the mother and father of the child,” said York Regional Police Sgt. Laurie Perks.

A helicopter team, canine unit and several squad cars were dispatched to search by air and ground for the vehicle. Police even considered issuing an Amber Alert to track down the child. The vehicle and child were located just before 11 a.m., fewer than 20 kilometres from the store. It was only then that police realized the child was with his father. They are now investigating why the child's mother lied to police.

“Certainly public mischief is something to consider if it wasn't something we were advised it was,” Sgt. Perks said.