Woman accused in drowning of girl on Alberta lake denied bail
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The woman accused in the drowning death of a five-year-old girl in an Alberta lake has been denied bail.
The woman accused in the drowning death of a five-year-old girl in an Alberta lake has been denied bail.
Justice Rosanna Saccomani announced the decision in a Stony Plain courtroom on Wednesday.
Mary Quinn, 35, is charged with failing to provide the necessities of life after the girl was found dead in Wabamun Lake west of Edmonton in October.
Quinn and the girl did not know one another.
The Crown says Quinn was under house arrest at the time of the girl's death as part of a conditional sentencing order for pushing her way into the home of a stranger armed with a gardening tool while intoxicated.
The conditional sentence was handed down less than three weeks before the drowning.
Prosecutor John Schmidt says Quinn did not get permission from her bail supervisor to be at the lake on Oct. 13.
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