Person of interest indentified in discovery of dead baby
CBC News, Friday, April 18, 2008
Police have identified a "person of interest" in the discovery of
the body of a baby boy dumped outside Edmonton, RCMP said Friday.
A man walking his dog west of Edmonton discovered the
body of a dead baby in this wooded area Wednesday
morning. (RCMP)
Police released a photo of the pink towel in which the
infant was wrapped, in hopes someone will recognize
it.(RCMP)
The newborn was wrapped in a pink towel and placed in
a wooded part of the Silver Sands subdivision near Stony
Plain, about 40 kilometres west of Edmonton, where he
was found by a man walking his dog Wednesday morning.
Investigators have not yet established what role, if
any, the person of interest identified - a woman
- played in the discovery, RCMP Cpl. Wayne Oakes said.
An autopsy Thursday showed the baby was close to full
term and showed no obvious signs of trauma.
The medical examiner has not yet determined the baby's race or
cause of death, said police.
Police are asking the public for help in determining what
occurred and who may have been involved, Oakes added.
KINGSTON, Ont. (CP) -- An Ontario woman who was sentenced to 16 years
in prison in one of Canada's stiffest penalties for child abuse will be
released on full parole after serving less than half her term.
Lorelei Turner, 38, and her husband Steven were convicted of manslaughter
in July 1995 for beating and starving their three-year-old son John to death
in a case that horrified Canadians who followed the trial.
But on Wednesday, a panel of the National Parole Board in this eastern
Ontario city ruled Turner will be released but placed on probation until
July 2011.
Until then, she must remain within 25 kilometres of her residence, is
not allowed unsupervised contact with anyone under 16, and must continue
to receive counselling.
"The board would have looked at the risk and obviously found a low risk
to reoffend," Carol Sparling of the National Parole Board said Wednesday.
A WOMAN who killed her infant son by jumping with him from the eighth
floor of a city apartment block has walked free after being convicted of
manslaughter.
Yeeda Topham, 40, of Roleystone near Perth, had pleaded guilty in the
West Australian Supreme Court to a charge of unlawfully killing
21-month-old James Topham on November 5 last year. Read More ..
LOS ANGELES, USA -- Murder charges are expected to be filed against a
woman whose infant son's body was found in a washing machine after firefighters
doused what they say was an intentionally set fire, authorities said Tuesday.
Latunga Starks, 32, was taken into custody last night, according to the
Sheriff's Department Web site.
Los Angeles Police Department Lt. Dennis Shirey identified the mother
and her nearly 3-month-old son, Michael Kelvin Thompson.
Craig and Kathleen Folbigg's first son died in his sleep at 19 days old. Their next child, Patrick, died two
years later at nine months.
Still, it was after their fourth baby died before Australian police suspected something was terribly wrong.
In Sydney's New South Wales State Supreme Court this week, Kathleen Folbigg, 35, was found guilty of killing
all four of her babies.
The jury's work would have been made much easier if they had been allowed to read Folbigg's entire secret
diary. In it, she practically confesses to following in her dad's deadly footsteps.
"Obviously I am my father's daughter," the Australian woman wrote in her diary Oct. 14, 1996, having already
killed three of her four children.
"But I think losing my temper and being frustrated and everything has passed. I now just let things happen
and go with the flow. An attitude I should of had with all my children, if given the chance, I'll have it
with the next one."
Folbigg was pregnant at the time with her fourth child. She would go on to kill her as well.
