MONCTON, N.B. -- A New Brunswick woman charged after her newborn son's body was found in a snowbank has pleaded guilty to charges of neglecting to obtain assistance in child birth, concealing the body of a child and offering an indignity to human remains.
Crown prosecutor Stephen Holt said Wednesday that a charge of attempted murder has been dropped in the case against Christine Margaret Wood of Riverview.
The boy's body was found on a remote logging road near Monteagle, N.B., in April 2009.
The child became known as Baby Taylor in the weeks after his body was discovered, based on the name of the road where he was found.
A trial had been set to begin in Moncton provincial court, but Holt said the plea arrangement was brought before Judge Denis Lordon after prosecutors agreed to drop the attempted murder charge.
Wood has been released on conditions and will be sentenced on Oct. 9 in the afternoon.
