Edmonton police are objecting to a decision by Crown prosecutors to offer a plea deal to a woman charged with murdering an eight-year-old Indigenous girl — an unprecedented move in which the service laid bare its dissatisfaction with the organization that prosecutes most of its cases.

On Monday, the Edmonton Police Service (EPS) sent a letter to provincial assistant deputy justice minister Kim Goddard expressing “shock and horror” on learning the accused is expected to plead down from first-degree murder to manslaughter Wednesday. The woman — who cannot be named under a publication ban — was charged by police in 2023 after the girl went missing from an Edmonton home. The girl’s body was later moved to Maskwacis in a hockey bag and abandoned in the bed of a pickup.

In the letter — obtai

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