The birth parents who abandoned a newborn baby in a frigid stairwell early last year have been sentenced -- and neither will be spending any more time in custody.
The Kitchener, Ont. residents were arrested about 11 months ago. They were unemployed at the time. They were originally charged with:
- abandoning a child
- failing to provide the necessities of life
- assault causing bodily harm
- criminal negligence causing bodily harm
The father was sentenced to 11 months and given time served after he pleaded guilty to abandoning a child and three counts of failing to provide the necessities of life. He will face two years of probation.
The mother was fined under the Family Services Act.
They cannot be named because the court ordered a publication ban.
In late January 2008, a shopper found the two-month-old infant in the cold stairwell of a North York plaza on a day where the temperature had dropped to -14 degrees Celsius.
Social workers gave her the name Angelica-Leslie because they thought she had the face of an angel and she was found on Leslie Street.
Security camera video emerged showing a man driving up to the door of the stairwell carrying a bundle in his arms, but a tip led investigators to the parents.
The parents had three other young children who were placed in a temporary foster home following the adults' arrest.
More than 80 families had volunteered to adopt Angelica-Leslie. She is now with a new family.
Her siblings are with another family.
With a report from CTV Toronto's Galit Solomon
