Newborn’s Mother Charged with First Degree Murder of Child

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Toronto police has taken a 25-year-old mother, Angelica Spanidis, of a newborn baby in custody and charged her with first-degree murder of her child. The investigators have yet to locate the body of newborn baby, which is suspected to have been transported to B.C. after it was allegedly dumped in a used clothing bin. Det. Sgt. Dean Burks explained that “Police were contacted by North York General Hospital last Thursday afternoon. We were able to gather sufficient evidence by Friday morning to charge the mother…with first degree murder. At this point we have not located the body of the deceased infant.” He added that “we have information that led us to believe that the body was born at the residence, and that’s the location where the baby was killed.”

Meanwhile, the head of Toronto’s homicide squad, Insp. Greg McLane, revealed that the investigators have gathered information from the medical staff and the woman, which has confirmed that the women gave birth indeed. McLane stated that “the information that we’re following up on is that the child was discarded into a clothing bin.”

On the other hand, homicide investigators in British Columbia confirmed on Monday night that the search for the infant’s body had shifted to the province’s Lower Mainland. The woman had been living with her family at a home in the area of Victoria Park Avenue and O’Connor Drive in Toronto, where the forensic investigators are still searching on Monday. She appeared in a Toronto court on Monday.