A 39-year-old woman from Charlottetown has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of her baby daughter, Charlottetown police say.
Cassie Acorn’s child died at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax three weeks ago “while the infant was being treated for injuries sustained during an incident in Charlottetown on March 16,” the city’s police force said in a news release late Wednesday.
Police said that after an investigation, Acorn was charged with first-degree murder contrary to Section 229(a)(ii) and Section 235(1) of the Criminal Code of Canada.
Those sections describe the crime as culpable homicide causing the death of another person while either intending to cause death or intending to cause bodily harm that the accused knows is likely to cause death.
Acorn is being held in custody and is scheduled to appear in P.E.I. Supreme Court on Thursday.