P.E.I. woman pleads guilty to attempted murder

A P.E.I. woman has pleaded guilty to trying to kill her own child.

The 44-year-old woman appeared in P.E.I. Supreme Court Wednesday with her lawyer, who entered the guilty plea on her behalf.

The court had received a mental health assessment from the Nova Scotia Health Authority which deemed her fit to stand trial.

The charge was in connection with an incident onAug. 25.

A court ban prohibits identifying the woman because doing so could identify the victim.

The womanhad originally also faced a charge of administering a noxious substance. That charge was stayed Wednesday.

The woman has been in custody since the incident and agreed Wednesday to stay in custody.

She is scheduled tobe sentenced on March 18.

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