Toronto mother who threw baby boy to his death down garbage chute found NCR

March 3, 2026

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A Toronto woman who threw her four-month-old son into the garbage chute, killing him, in November 2024 has been found not criminally responsible (NCR) due to a mental disorder.

A forensic psychiatrist who assessed Karessa Edwards testified the 30-year-old was psychotic at the time and put her son in the garbage chute in response to command auditory hallucinations.

Sitting in the prisoner’s box wearing a green prison-issued sweatsuit, Edwards listened quietly as her lawyer told Superior Court Justice Jane Kelly his client was pleading not guilty to second-degree murder due to a mental disorder.

As Catherine McDonald reports, Edwards sat quietly while listening to assistant Crown prosecutor Liz Jackson read out a disturbing agreed statement of facts.

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