Woman sentenced for stabbing 6-year-old son
A 35-year-old Saskatoon woman was sentenced Monday for stabbing her young son multiple times.
The woman pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in the case last month. The names of the victim and his family members are subject to a court-ordered publication ban.
At a sentencing hearing in Saskatoon Court of Queen’s Bench, court heard the details of the March 2013 incident. At that time, the woman lived in a Nutana neighbourhood home with her two boys, then aged six and nine. It was a day when the childrens’ father was supposed to pick them up.
The older boy told police he and his younger brother were watching television when their mother led the youngest boy away. He also said his mother was ‘flipping out’ after a phone conversation with the boys’ father.