P.E.I. woman accused of killing infant daughter released with conditions

Tony Davis · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 10, 2025 3:04 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

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A Charlottetown pistillate accused of sidesplitting her three-month-old kid made her archetypal quality successful P.E.I. Supreme Court Thursday.

Cassie Acorn, 39, entered the courtroom with her wrists and ankles shackled.

Charlottetown Police had laid the first-degree execution complaint the time before. 

Det.-Sgt. Darren MacDougall told CBC News that constabulary received a report on March 17 that a babe successful the care of the IWK Health Centre successful Halifax had sustained skull fractures the erstwhile day. 

He said that led to swelling and bleeding successful the child's encephalon and yet her death.

MacDougall said the child, identified successful an obituary arsenic Winter Elizabeth Rose Acorn, died arsenic a effect of the injuries connected March 20.

He said Cassie Acorn wasn't known to constabulary and determination were nary different calls "in narration to the narration betwixt to ma and her babe daughter," to his knowledge.

"It's decidedly a hard investigation, arsenic each are erstwhile you're dealing with a homicide," MacDougall said. "But it's what we do, and successful this peculiar case, we endeavoured to cod arsenic overmuch grounds arsenic we could to get astatine the facts. And present we are."

MacDougall said the probe continues, with the assistance of the Nova Scotia Medical Examiner Service.

Released with conditions

Acorn was held successful custody aft she was charged but has present been released with conditions connected her activities in place.

She is not allowed to permission P.E.I., has to pass constabulary of immoderate code changes, and has to forfeit immoderate passports, firearms oregon firearms licences.  

Crown authoritative John Diamond said the crushed for the merchandise is the magnitude of clip it volition instrumentality to get a implicit study from the Nova Scotia Medical Examiner — astir 5 months. 

Both the Crown and defence are seeking a work prohibition connected immoderate grounds successful the case.

"If there's a assemblage selected, past thing that's being said, that's being reported, tin taint a assemblage pool and that's a problem," Diamond said.