Do NOT read this on a full stomach!

Hitherto, whilst contemplating what goes on 'over there' I have concentrated on the 'good ol' US of A' and rather ignored their somewhat placid and provincial neighbours to the north.  Today, I stumbled upon a Canadian horror story which has forced me to re-appraise the entire country.  It comes from Pyjamas Media who have headlined the story, only slightly innacurately, thus:

Canada Legalizes Infanticide

A 1996 exhibit in Washington DC featured the remains of an Incan child sacrifice.

I read the story whilst sipping my morning coffee - and nearly spewed the lot over my keyboard!  There are two villainesses in this repellant tale.  The first is Katrina Effert who, in 2005, at the age of 19, gave birth to a baby son secretly in the basement of her house in order to avoid telling her parents.  When the baby began to cry - and please make sure you are not eating or drinking now - she strangled him with a pair of thongs and then tossed his little body into the next door neighbour's backyard like a piece of garbage.  When the body was found and the police began to investigate she told them it could not be her because she was still a virgin.  This was disproved and so she then tried to frame her boyfriend by saying that she had given her baby to him.  In her subsequent trial the prosecutors used her lying and framing of her innocent boyfriend to bring charges of murder rather than infanticide.  They needed that extra evidence because in Canada, that bastion of liberal opinion, infanticide is not considered to be a crime, merely a 'mental aberration' brought about by the 'suffering' that women go through in giving birth.  How billions of women have managed this feat without slaughtering their babies is not considered by the liberal judiciary of Canada to be of any importance.  Anyway, this hag was duly found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.  Personally, I would have strangled her with a pair of her own thongs!

So, exit 'Lady MacBeth', but now, enter her twin sister, in the deeply unlovely guise of Judge Joanne Veit who presided over a second trial brought about by Effert's lawyers who claimed that the murder charge was wrong and that it should have been infanticide for which, in Canada, the maximum penalty is 5 years!  From Pyjamas Media:

According to Veit the murderess is the victim:

Queen’s Bench Justice Joanne Veit rejected the Crown’s call for a four-year prison term — which she described as “essentially” seeking the maximum five-year punishment when taking into account the time Effert has already spent behind bars and under strict bail conditions.

Based on the fact infanticide has not been struck from the Criminal Code and it has no minimum penalty, Veit said she feels Canadians “understand, accept and sympathize with the onerous demands pregnancy and childbirth exact from mothers, especially mothers without support.

“Naturally, Canadians are grieved by an infant’s death, especially at the hands of the infant’s mother, but Canadians also grieve for the mother,” said Veit.(PM's emphasis) 

Alas, I cannot find a photo of Judge Veit and so any resemblance to this woman must be entirely coincidental:

Irma Greese

Only one conclusion can be drawn from this bestial story.  In my eyes Canada, as a nation, now ranks somewhere between Zimbabwe and North Korea.  If I ever hear another Canadian liberal preaching and prating on the subject of human rights I shall simply shout out "Baby Effert" and "Vile Veit" before trying to find a shotgun!

Er, sorry to have spoiled your day!

 

 

Comments

[Andra]

David, this is a terrible story and a tragedy for all concerned.
However, I do think you are being rather harsh in your total condemnation of this female person.
Personally, I could not, for one moment, have ever, ever considered giving my one and only child away or harming him in any way. Giving birth was the most remarkable experience of my life and I am still stunned and amazed at what I managed single-handedly (well, OK - but nearly). That overwhelming love I felt for that little human being in that second of delivery still exists 42 years later.
A year to so later my husband revealed that he had decided he didn't like children and, to make a long story short, I had to make a decision to keep the husband or the son and the kid won, hands down. No contest.
So, let's say my maternal instincts are fairly keen, I think.
But still, I can understand that, at a time like this, when the hormones are working overtime, it's possible that life can seem fairly hopeless to a girl in a situation like this.
Obviously this girl felt totally alone and absolutely bereft. And so, let's say she snapped and "solved her problem."
You cannot possibly judge this girl - it is something that has never and could never happen to you.
Sometimes a little bit of compassion doesn't hurt. This, to me, is one of those times.

[David Duff]

Andra, your theory to the effect that this woman (not girl) "snapped" under pressure is hardly supported by the fact that after the event she threw the baby away, then she lied to the police, and then she tried to frame an innocent man. And, please, don't try that 'oh, you're a man you can't possibly understand' line. Are you seriously suggesting that fundamental laws of morality are somehow suspended when it comes to women and babies?

[Andra]

My dear friend David, we will differ on yet another subject.
On the very limited knowledge I have of this case, I don't think the sentence is excessive.
Now, if I were to shoot you, presuming that a mutual friend loaned me a gun, that is, and I claimed dimished responsibility on the grounds that you had been leading me to believe for 6 years or so that you would leave your memsahib and make an honest woman of me and our 6 children, what, do we think, my chances of getting off would be?
If convicted, what do you think my sentence would be?
Would I be justified in bumping you off?
Could I convince a jury of my victimhood?
Could I afford a damned good defence solicitor?
I think I could probably say yes to all of the above.
Watch yourself Mr Duff.
I may well be a woman scorned!!

[David Duff]

If you were to shoot me, darling Andra, it would be no less than a crime against humanity! Just think of all those poor people who wouldn't know what to think if I wasn't around to tell them!