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   Then nothing can be.  This woman is mentally incompetent and her   
   boyfriend is complicit in the killings.   
   And where are the charges against the boyfriend?   
      
   The courts should have the right to impose sterilization on both of them.   
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     Calgary Herald - November 26, 2013   
      
   Calgary mother faces maximum five year sentence in deaths of two newborns   
      
      
   Meredith Katharine Borowiec faces a maximum five-year prison sentence   
   for disposing of two live newborn babies in a trash bin, a judge ruled   
   Tuesday.   
      
   In his lengthy oral decision, Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Pewter   
   McIntyre acquitted the 32-year-old Calgary woman of two counts of   
   second-degree murder and convicted her of the rare criminal charge of   
   infanticide regarding the deliveries in 2008 and 2009.   
      
   “The Crown had proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused   
   wilfully caused the deaths of two of her newly born children by   
   abandoning them,” McIntyre said.   
   “The Crown has failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that when the   
   accused caused their deaths, her mind was not disturbed from the effects   
   of giving birth to them.”   
      
   Borowiec was charged with the deaths of the two babies, whose bodies   
   were never found, when she did the same to a third newborn outside her   
   northwest apartment building in May 2010. That baby boy was first   
   discovered by a passerby within a couple of hours of him being dumped in   
   the trash, then by her boyfriend Ian Turnbull — the father of all three   
   infants.   
      
   McIntyre said he accepted the testimony of forensic psychiatrist Dr.   
   Jeanette Smith, who concluded Borowiec’s mind was disturbed as having   
   not yet fully recovered from giving birth.   
      
   He said the actions of the mother regarding the third baby, for which   
   she faces a second trial next year on attempted murder, gave credence to   
   her statements to police about the first two babies.   
      
   “For the third baby, knowing police were there investigating, she sat on   
   the front step of the building with a bloody blanket wrapped around her   
   watching them,” said McIntyre. “These bizarre actions — with Dr.   
   Smith’s   
   opinion — tell me her mind was disturbed as a result of these births.”   
      
   Borowiec smiled and shook the hands of her lawyers — Andrea Serink and   
   Jim Lutz — before she left the courtroom. None of them would comment   
   outside court after the verdict.   
      
   Crown prosecutor Jayme Williams, who along with co-counsel Darren   
   Maloney had argued for the murder convictions, said outside court the   
   judge gave a thorough and reasoned decision.   
      
   “The long and the short of it is, Ms. Borowiec was convicted of wilfully   
   killing two newborns,” said Williams.   
      
   McIntyre noted that Borowiec consistently denied to friends and   
   co-workers that she was pregnant on all of the occasions, and she said   
   her boyfriend did not know she was going to give birth, factors he ruled   
   were consistent with psychiatric observations of denial.   
      
   But, he added, when she told police of the newborns, she was reliving   
   real memories consistent with real recollections.   
      
   “She did not even know the gender, which is consistent with   
   neonaticide,” said McIntyre. “There were no suggestions from her they   
   died before they were put in the Dumpster. She said she hoped somebody   
   would help them. This story, though bizarre, is consistent with them   
   being alive.”   
      
   The case was adjourned to Friday to set a date for sentencing.   
      
   Borowiec remains free on bail until then.   
      
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