Sentencing delay for mother in boy’s strep death not good for justice: judge
CALGARY — An Alberta judge expressed frustration Monday over a delay in the sentencing for a woman who treated her son with holistic remedies before he died of a strep infection.
Justice Kristine Eidsvik in January found Tamara Lovett guilty of criminal negligence causing death. The judge said Lovett “gambled away” the life of her seven-year-old son Ryan by diagnosing what remedies would be useful without seeking medical help.
Lovett gave her son dandelion tea and oil of oregano when he developed the infection that kept him bedridden in their Calgary home for 10 days in March 2013.
A delay in a psychiatric report ordered in late January has pushed her sentencing hearing to Sept. 21.