{"id":157817,"date":"2016-12-05T15:40:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T20:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=157817"},"modified":"2016-12-06T14:31:29","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T19:31:29","slug":"canadian-woman-probation-drowning-newborn-college-exam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/canadian-woman-probation-drowning-newborn-college-exam\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian woman gets probation for drowning newborn to go to college exam"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A woman who claimed her baby was the result\u00a0of sexual assault gave that as an excuse for drowning her infant\u00a0so that she could get to an exam at Thompson Rivers University was sentenced with just two years\u2019 probation by\u00a0a provincial court judge.<\/p>\n

The judge was sympathetic with 19 year-old Courtney Saul, because she claimed the baby was conceived during a sexual assault.<\/p>\n

According to Christian News<\/a>, at the time of the murder, Saul was a student at Thompson Rivers University, and gave birth in her basement apartment in Kamloops:<\/p>\n

But as she had an exam at school later that day, she wasn\u2019t sure what to do with the baby, and decided to get rid of him.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe finally decided she should drown the baby. She did that in the sink and then she went to her exam,\u201d attorney Will Burrows told reporters.<\/p>\n

When Saul returned, she\u00a0wrapped the baby, who she named George Carlos, in a t-shirt and then placed him in a box. She then placed the box in a backpack, which she put in\u00a0the trunk of her car.<\/p>\n

Three weeks later, the child was discovered in the trunk after Saul loaned her vehicle to a friend, who then was involved in a collision. The driver reportedly fled the scene of the accident, and when firefighters and police arrived, they opened the backpack hoping to find identification.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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