Calgary woman who left three of her infants in a dumpster CALGARY Meredith Borowiec has given birth to four children. The first was born in a panic and left in a dumpster next to her Calgary home. A second baby a year later was similarly discarded; neither body was ever found. Her third child was born in October, 2010. Borowiec, again, hid the child in the trash. But this time, the infant was rescued after its cries were overheard by a man named Ian Turnbull Borowiec long time boyfriend and the baby father. He had been unaware of her pregnancy. On Wednesday, Borowiec was sentenced to 18 oakley sunglasses months in jail. The judge condemned her actions, but resisted a prosecution recommendation that she be sentenced to as many as 12 cheap oakley sunglasses discount years. is a terrible case, Judge Peter McIntyre told Borowiec. shocked the community and you shamed yourself. I have to remind myself to be dispassionate about this case. then 32, was questioned after the third child was found; she made no attempt to hide the blood oakley sunglasses discount on her pyjama bottoms. It was only during a later interrogation that Borowiec confessed to killing the previous two children, in 2008 and 2009. She had a fourth child in July, 2012, while in custody undergoing psychiatric assessment; like the others, it was fathered by Mr.

Turnbull. have accepted what has happened and feel horrible about it. I will have to live with this, Borowiec told the court in January. On Wednesday, Borowiec was also sentenced to three years probation. During that time, she be required to use an Intrauterine Device, or some other form of contraception. Borowiec is consenting to continue to have the IUD for the period of probation, defence attorney Andrea Serink told the court. not something the court could order without her consent. That leaves the option for the court to implement that, if it be necessary, to continue having an IUD or other means of contraception. oakley sunglasses discount sat slumped against the wall until she was asked to rise by the judge. Judge McIntyre noted she has shown "genuine remorse." have no criminal record. All three offences were committed while your mind was disturbed while giving birth. In law, your responsibility was diminished. You cooperated with police, he said. also notable that without your admissions to police about the first babies, there would be no case against you. court also noted Borowiec did not display many of the common early signs of pregnancy; she continued to menstruate throughout all four pregnancies.

The judge imposed a suspended sentence for the aggravated assault which, he cheap oakley sunglasses discount surmised, would encourage her to abide by the conditions of her probation. In addition, Borowiec is to be subject to a 10 year common law peace bond requiring that she report becoming pregnant to probationary services, a medical practitioner and child and family services.Crown attorneys had asked she be imprisoned for 11 12 years, less time served. knew she was pregnant. She knew what she did previously, she was lying about her actions and yet she proceeded in the same fashion, said Crown attorney Darren Maloney. are all aggravating cheap oakley sunglasses factors that increase her moral blameworthiness. Crown is appealing her infanticide convictions. She was originally charged with second degree murder. In interviews with police, Borowiec admitted she heard the babies cry before she put them in trash bags and dropped them into garbage bins, but denied doing anything to hurt them before she disposed of them. Court heard she didn't even look to see whether it was a boy or a girl before she wrapped her first born infant in a towel and put it in a garbage bag. Borowiec admitted to a similar scenario in 2009 when she again gave birth into a toilet in her apartment, wrapped the child in a towel and dropped it into the bathroom garbage before walking cheap oakley sunglasses out to a Dumpster and disposing of it.

In a lengthy video interview with oakley sunglasses police after her arrest in November 2011, Borowiec said she heard a noise "like a kitten" after the birth of the first child and, the following year, was aware the second child was alive as well. "It was a tiny cry," Borowiec said in the video as she described the noise coming from the toilet. "It was like something took over me. It was like I wasn't in control," she said. Borowiec also told police that she kept her pregnancies secret from co workers by telling them her appearance was due to cysts on her uterus. She said her boyfriend was unaware that she was pregnant either before or after the births.