CALGARY — An Alberta woman who drugged and killed her nine-year-old daughter has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance at parole for 18 years. Laura Coward pleaded guilty in a Calgary courtroom last month to the second-degree murder of Amber Lucius. In sentencing Coward, Justice Scott Brooker said the killing was random, senseless, and the ultimate betrayal of Coward’s own daughter. Amber was reported missing in August 2014 and her mother was arrested two days later near Sundre in west-central Alberta. At her sentencing hearing last week, Coward begged the girl’s father and her own family and friends to forgive her.

Source: National Post March 10, 2017 21:22 UTC