Canadian Immigration focuses on Life in Canada: The case of a Chinese Canadian woman charged with killing two newborn infants and abandoning their bodies in 2009 and 2010 continued its second day of hearings on the 19th. The defendant, Sarah Jee-Wah Leung, continued to have her mother testify.
In court, she insisted that she did not know her daughter had a boyfriend, but admitted that her daughter had brought a Filipino male classmate home during high school and was scolded by her father. Leung's mother claimed that she only learned from the newspaper recently that her daughter had gotten married, and expressed feelings of guilt for not understanding her daughter well and for not handling her emotions, becoming emotional and crying, and apologized loudly to her daughter in court, blaming herself for failing. The defendant, who had remained calm, also covered her face and cried.
The 28-year-old Chinese woman, Sarah Jee-Wah Leung, is charged with two counts of second-degree murder. She is slender and not very tall, and appeared in court on the 19th wearing a black coat, jeans, and a gray hoodie, maintaining a calm demeanor.
Leung's mother was questioned by both prosecutor Sandra Cunningham and defense attorney Richard Fowler. Leung's mother recalled that on the morning of April 2, 2009, she was supposed to go to work with her husband, who runs a gardening business, but returned home to get something. Her husband found a bag containing a baby in the front yard and called the police, while Leung had gone to work that day and only returned home at dinner time.
Leung's mother stated that two days before the discovery of the infant's body, her daughter had taken leave due to menstrual pain, and since it had been raining for those two days, she also did not work and stayed at home. She indicated that she did not notice anything unusual about her daughter, but her daughter told her that her period was a week late. On April 1, Leung's mother saw a blood-stained carpet, used sanitary napkins, and blood-stained pajamas in the bathroom, which she cleaned and put in the washing machine.
Leung's mother stated that the police later told her they suspected the infant's body was her daughter's, but she firmly denied it. She said that on the day the infant's body was found, she asked her daughter if she knew anything related to the infant's body, but her daughter said she did not know. Leung's mother said, "I asked her, and she said the baby was not hers." She also claimed that she did not know her daughter had gone to Mount St. Joseph Hospital on April 3, nor did she know that her daughter had seen the police in August 2009.
Regarding her daughter, Leung's mother admitted that she knew very little. She indicated that her daughter would hide in her room after dinner, but she did not know what she was doing in there, nor did she know if her daughter had a computer in her room, who her best friends were, or what her hobbies and dreams were.
