Saskatchewan Woman Found Not Guilty For Abandoning Baby in Toilet

Halkett, 22, wept silently and dabbed at her eyes with a tissue after Court of Queen's Bench Justice Neil Gabrielson ruled the Crown did not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she had planned to leave the newborn behind.

[q url="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/saskatchewan-woman-who-left-baby-in-toilet-not-guilty-of-abandonment/article1195277/"]“This was not a case of abandonment but rather a case of a scared young woman being confronted with unexpected circumstances involving a precipitous birth and a pale, motionless child because the child was in a shock-like state,” the judge said Wednesday. “She responded to these circumstances in an obviously inappropriate way in leaving the child in the toilet.”

t the trial, Halkett's lawyer, Ajay Krishan, said her actions were not premeditated. He said Halkett didn't know she was pregnant that day, having taken three home pregnancy tests, all of which came back negative.