Calgary woman not criminally responsible for her disabled daughter’s death
CALGARY — A judge has a found a Calgary woman not criminally responsible for the death of her disabled daughter.
Patricia Couture, who is 70, was charged with criminal negligence causing death.
Her daughter Melissa had cerebral palsy, had not received medical treatment for the last four years of her life and weighed just over 50 pounds when she died in April 2016.
According to an agreed statement of facts, Melissa lived with severe mental and physical disabilities, including hearing loss, visual impairment and stiffness in her extremities.