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Between 2008 and 2010, Meredith Katharine Borowiec gave birth to three babies in her Calgary home. Each time, she wrapped the newborn in a towel, tied it up in a garbage bag and put it in a dumpster. The first two were lost forever, but the third, a boy, was rescued in October 2010, leading to her arrest, as she observed the scene. A police officer noticed blood on the blanket she wore wrapped around her waist, and EMS personnel noticed stretch marks on her abdomen. She soon admitted what she had done.

Two years later, during a psychiatric assessment, doctors learned she was pregnant a fourth time, and she delivered under medical care.

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Now, the unusual law under which she was sent to jail is up for its first ever review at the Supreme Court of Canada, which declined to hear similar cases in the past, but this time had no choice.

Canada’s law against infanticide — a form of culpable homicide like murder and manslaughter — is “vague, outdated and rife with problems,” says Alberta’s government, which will ask the Supreme Court next week to commit Borowiec to a second murder trial in the killing of the first two babies.