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Longueuil police vehicles are parked in Longueuil, Que., Monday, March 4, 2024.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi
Woman arrested in death of abandoned newborn had spent morning at homeless shelter
Published 10:28 PDT, Tue October 28, 2025
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A woman arrested in the death of a newborn found abandoned in a Montreal-area bus shelter on Monday had been at a homeless centre earlier that day.
Pierre Rousseau is general manager of the Halte du Coin homeless shelter in Longueuil, Que., on Montreal's South Shore, about 700 metres from where the baby was found.
He says staff reported that the woman came in around 3 a.m. on Monday and that he saw her there when he arrived just before 8 a.m.
Police found the baby at the bus shelter at 6:30 a.m., and the child was declared dead in hospital at 8 a.m.
Rousseau says shelter staff noticed something was wrong with the woman when she stood up from the chair she had been sleeping in, but he wouldn't give details.
Jacqueline Pierre, a Longueuil police spokeswoman, says authorities are focused on the woman's physical and mental health, adding that it's unclear if she will be charged.
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