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“She was able to articulate an awareness of the moral wrongfulness (of her intent to join ISIS). She was generally aware of the legal and moral wrongfulness of travelling for the purpose of participating in terrorist activity,” wrote Dr. Chatterjee.

The woman showed she was aware she was breaking the law by “attempting to evade criminal persecution by denying” she wanted to travel to Syria to join ISIS, lying that she wanted to visit family, the report stated.

But the doctor wrote that as Dughmosh’s “psychosis intensified, her view of the world and associated understanding of right and wrong was increasingly distorted by the force of her symptoms.”

The psychiatrist also opined that a finding of not criminally responsible due to mental disorder was available to her “from strictly a psychiatric perspective.” But Dughmosh never pursued this defence. Crown attorney Jason Wakely disputed the facts and conclusions of the psychiatric assessment.

Although Dughmosh pleaded not guilty to the charges, she accepted the statement of facts read in court. She made no closing arguments and was found guilty of all charges after roughly an hour of deliberations.

She attacked but didn’t harm her victims, repeatedly shouting, “This is for ISIS!”

Dughmosh was arrested.

Dughmosh tried to join Daesh — the Arabic name of ISIS — in Syria by flying from Toronto to Istanbul, Turkey, where she planned to cross into ISIS-controlled territory.

Turkish authorities blocked her and flew her back to Canada.

Dughmosh will return to court Friday after the judge has reviewed the evidence.

spazzano@postmedia.com