Quebec teen who abandoned baby in forest gets 27-month sentence

The teenager, who is now 17, pleaded guilty to manslaughter at an earlier court appearance. The baby was found in November 2006 in the Laurentian community of Ste-Sophie. The young mother will have to spend 18 months in a youth detention centre, a judge ruled Monday.

After that, the youth court will decide if she can serve the rest of her sentence in the community.

The girl was 16 and alone at the time she gave birth. Her parents were going through a difficult divorce.

The child was born on Nov. 5, 2006, in the bathroom of the teen's stepfather's home in the Laurentians. The girl wrapped her new son in a towel afterwards and took him into the nearby woods, where the infant froze to death.

She told her mother, who was going through a difficult divorce, that she had miscarried.

The judge's ruling came as lawyers prepared to give pre-sentencing arguments.

The teen has been in custody since April 17 after she was deemed to have violated bail conditions because she skipped school.