Mother Free After Killing Baby

Remember the guffaws we heard when we said that killing babies in the womb leads to killing babies out of the womb. We were told we were being ridiculous. There’s no slippery slope, we were told.

Well, it turns out that the slope is pretty darn slippery. A mom just received no jail time for killing her kid. So we’re just heading happily down that slope. I don’t even think we’ve thudded at the bottom yet. I fear we’re just picking up speed.

LifeSiteNews.com reports:

An Alberta judge has let a woman who strangled her newborn son walk free by arguing that Canada’s absence of a law on abortion signals that Canadians “sympathize” with the mother.

“We live in a country where there is no protection for children in the womb right up until birth and now this judge has extended the protection for the perpetrator rather than the victim, even though the child is born and as such should be protected by the court,” said Jim Hughes, national president of Campaign Life Coalition.

Katrina Effert of Wetaskiwin, Alberta gave birth secretly in her parents’ downstairs bathroom on April 13, 2005, and then later strangled the newborn and threw his body over a fence. She was 19 at the time.

She has been found guilty of second-degree murder by two juries, but both times the judgment was thrown out by the appeals court. In May, the Alberta Court of Appeal overturned her 2009 murder conviction and replaced it with the lesser charge of infanticide.

On Friday, Effert got a three-year suspended sentence from Justice Joanne Veit of the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench. As a result, she was able to walk out of court, though she will have to abide by certain conditions.

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