By On April 10, 2014 :Huffington Post
ran an article summarizing the guilty verdict handed down by a
Vancouver court to child killer Sarah Leung. The former mother had twice
placed her newborn in a plastic bag and left it out with the trash.
Only one of the dead infant’s bodies was found.
The article itself opens with the following:
The article itself opens with the following:
A Vancouver jury has convicted a 28-year-old woman of two counts of infanticide in the separate deaths of her two newborn sons, finding her guilty of a lesser crime than second-degree murder.If this is our justice system at its best, we are all in fucking trouble.
The jury returned with the verdicts for Sarah Leung on Thursday night, concluding six days of deliberations following a trial that began in February.
Leung’s lawyer, Richard Fowler, said Friday the case remains an “abject tragedy” but that the jury came back with the right decision.
“I think personally it’s an example of our justice system at its absolute best,” he said in an interview.