A mother who pleaded guilty to criminal negligence causing death in her son’s drowning death in the Grand River in Ontario in 2018 has been given a two-year conditional sentence during a virtual hearing Tuesday.
Michelle Hanson, 38, was charged after three-year-old Kaden Young died during heavy flooding on Feb. 21, 2018, near Hanson’s then home west of Orangeville, about 60 kilometres northwest of Toronto. She pleaded guilty in November.
She appeared via video from Stephenville, N.L., where she moved in December 2020, the sentencing hearing was told.
Hanson will spend the first 18 months of her conditional sentence under house
