SALABERRY-DE-VALLEYFIELD - A Montreal mother charged with abandoning her three-year-old daughter in a field in rural Ontario has been scheduled to stand trial on Sept. 15.

The court has heard that the Crown and defence don't agree on all the conclusions of a psychiatric evaluation of the accused.

As a result, Quebec court Judge Bertrand St-Arnaud will determine whether the 34-year-old woman, whose name is under publication ban, should be held criminally responsible for her actions.

Prosecutor Lili Prévost-Gravel told reporters following the brief court hearing that the facts of the case are not in dispute — only the accused's mental state at the time of the alleged crime.

The mother has been charged with criminal negligence causing bodily harm and unlawful abandonment of a child, and t

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