As a result, her lawyer in that case argued she had diminished moral culpability, a concept also known as blameworthiness. At a separate sentencing two years later, court heard Moar also struggled with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, addictions and homelessness, CBC previously reported. While one expert on mothers who kill their newborns said earlier this month she was dismayed to see Moar charged with manslaughter instead of infanticide, which carries a lesser maximum sentence, another expert in criminology says she wasn't surprised. "So I would really want to question, what is it that … the police and the Crown are really trying to achieve in laying that kind of manslaughter charge? However,they don't have to prove foreseeability of death as they would with a murder charge, he says.

Source: CBC News June 29, 2022 16:31 UTC