A mother has plead guilty to criminal negligence causing death after her infant died in an ATV crash in 2024.
Madisyn Elizabeth Parker appeared in court Monday, when she made the plea, according to a spokesperson for the Nova Scotia Public Prosecution Service.
It was May 27, 2024, when RCMP say she, her infant, and two others were driving on a side-by-side on a narrow, gravel, logging road connected to Forties Road near New Ross.
When officers got to the scene, they found a Polaris Rzr had rolled and come to a rest on its roof.
The infant was taken to hospital where she was later declared dead. Two adults were seriously hurt.
Police said that alcohol may have been a factor in the incident, and that the driver’s blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit at the time of the crash.
She was originally charges with additional offences, including dangerous driving and drunk driving causing death.
According to the prosecution service, those charges will be dealt with later, when Parker is sentenced on Sept. 18 in Bridgewater Provincial Court.
