A Quebec Court judge has determined that the 34-year-old woman from LaSalle who abandoned her three-year-old daughter in June was not criminally responsible for her actions.

Judge Bernard St-Arnaud made the decision following a brief hearing held Monday at the Valleyfield courthouse.

The judge heard a summary of the facts of the evidence and was presented with a report from a psychiatrist who examined the accused at the Philippe-Pinel Institute following her arrest.

The psychiatrist found that the woman, whose name cannot be published, was suffering from a mental illness on June 15 and was unable to tell right from wrong.

The judge then began hearing evidence to determine whether the woman should be released or detained at the mental health hospital and allowed to make unescorted leave

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