Edmonton woman arrested in connection with child’s death at Wabamun Lake

A 35-year-old Edmonton pistillate has been arrested and charged successful transportation with the drowning decease of a five-year-old miss connected Wabamun Lake past month.

In a quality merchandise issued Friday, the RCMP said Mary Quinn has been charged with failing to supply necessaries of life. She was arrested connected Wednesday.

The miss died connected Oct. 13 astatine Moonlight Bay connected Wabamun Lake. The water is located astir 70 kilometres westbound of Edmonton.

Police said officers were archetypal called to the country conscionable earlier 3 p.m. that time aft receiving a study astir a canoe that had flipped over. At the time, it was believed 2 radical were connected the boat.

According to the RCMP, a young miss was recovered from the h2o by bystanders earlier constabulary and paramedics arrived. She died contempt the life-saving efforts of paramedics. The different idiosyncratic who had been successful the canoe was a pistillate who was pulled from the h2o by idiosyncratic connected different boat.

On Oct. 17, constabulary provided an update and said investigators nary longer judge the canoe capsized and confirmed they were “continuing to dainty this fatal incidental arsenic a transgression investigation.”

On Oct. 29, police said the child’s decease had been deemed “suspicious” and that the RCMP’s large crimes portion had taken implicit the investigation.

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On Friday, the RCMP said Quinn had been remanded into custody. She is scheduled to look successful tribunal connected Nov. 20.