Mother pleads guilty to aggravated assault after trying to kill son
Seating in a Queen’s Bench courtroom filled up Monday as people came to support both the Saskatoon mother who stabbed her son during a custody dispute and the victim, who was six years old at the time.
In March 2013, police were called to a home in the 400 block of 9th Street East in the Nutana neighbourhood after the woman’s ex-husband said she wasn’t allowing him to pick up his two sons.
The mother was charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault after police found her and her youngest son in a bathroom. Both were bleeding from several stab wounds to the neck, abdomen and wrists.
The woman, who cannot be named in order to protect her son’s identity, pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of aggravated assault on what was scheduled to be the first day of a week-long attempted murder trial.