SALABERRY-DE-VALLEYFIELD — The 34-year-old Montreal mother charged with allegedly abandoning her daughter in a field near a major Ontario highway will continue to undergo a psychiatric assessment.

A Quebec court judge ordered the evaluation to continue at a Montreal psychiatric hospital during a brief court hearing today west of Montreal.

Judge Mylène Grégoire says the 30-day evaluation ordered a month earlier by another judge hasn't been completed.

The accused, whose name is subject to a publication ban to protect the young girl's identity, will remain at the facility and return to court on Sept. 8.

Police found the woman's three-year-old daughter alive and conscious in a field near a highway in Ontario on June 18, four days after the girl was reported missing.

The woman faces two co

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