Killer mom's hunger suicide helps authorities avoid Turcotte retrial embarrassment

Sonia Blanchette  - seen in this photo collage - has starved to death

   Sonia Blanchette, who killed her three children, aged 5, 4, and 2 in Drummondville in December 2012 has been permitted to starve to death in prison before her trial began.
   Her fate was an ideal result for the Quebec justice system, which in the past routinely gave little or no punishment for crazy moms who killed their kids as we have noted here.
   Had she gone to trial and received the standard insane-asylum-for-a-while sentence, it would have made the Turcotte retrial look strange.
   Guy Turcotte, of course, killed his two children. He was given the same punishment as Quebec's killer moms have received in the past but an outcry led authorities to order a retrial.