FRIDAY MARCH 27
ST. ANDREWS – A 19-year-old Moores Mills woman charged with manslaughter by criminal negligence and accessory after the fact to murder in connection with the death of her newborn son has been released on bail.
The court ordered that evidence presented at the bail hearing this week cannot be published - only the outcome. She was released from custody Friday afternoon and left the Court of Queens Bench in St. Andrews with her father.
Mr. Justice Raymond French heard evidence presented by Sarah Marie Russell’s lawyer, Randy Wilson, and Crown prosecutors Jim McAvity and Randy DiPaolo on Wednesday and Thursday, March 25 and 26.
Russell is also charged with disposing of the body of a dead child in an attempt to conceal its birth. She is due back in Provincial Court on April 20 when it will be decided if and when she will have a preliminary hearing into the first two charges. At that time she will also elect her mode of trial on the disposing of a dead body charge.
Russell and her boyfriend, Rodney Miller, 27, were arrested Jan. 29 and have been in custody since.
Miller is charged with first-degree murder in connection with the child’s death. No date has been set for his bail hearing. He is due back in Provincial Court on April 14 when it will be determined if and when he will have a preliminary hearing.
Both Miller and Russell have elected to be tried by Court of Queens Bench on their murder, manslaughter and accessory after the fact charges.
They both underwent court-ordered, 30-day psychiatric examinations which determined they were fit to stand trial and were not, at the time of the alleged offence, suffering from any mental disorder that would make them not criminally responsible.
The small house where Russell and Miller lived on Route 790 was cordoned off for several days after their arrest as local RCMP officers aided by those from the J Division Major Crime Unit South conducted the investigation into the infant’s death.
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