{"id":89352,"date":"2017-02-13T21:37:09","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T02:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=89352"},"modified":"2017-02-13T21:37:09","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T02:37:09","slug":"mother-charged-after-allegedly-trying-to-drown-3-year-old-son-in-ajax-ont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/13\/mother-charged-after-allegedly-trying-to-drown-3-year-old-son-in-ajax-ont\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother charged after allegedly trying to drown 3 year old son in Ajax, Ont."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_89353\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89353\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/800px-Ajax_ON.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89353\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/800px-Ajax_ON.jpg\" alt=\"A mother is facing multiple charges, including attempted murder, after she allegedly tried to drown her three-year-old son near a beach east of Toronto. (Photo by P199 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0) or GFDL (http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/fdl.html)],)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/800px-Ajax_ON.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/800px-Ajax_ON-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/800px-Ajax_ON-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mother is facing multiple charges, including attempted murder, after she allegedly tried to drown her three-year-old son near a beach east of Toronto. (Photo by<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AAjax_ON.JPG\"> P199 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0) or GFDL (http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/fdl.html)],<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>AJAX, Ont.\u2014A mother is facing multiple charges, including attempted murder, after she allegedly tried to drown her three-year-old son near a beach east of Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>David Selby, a spokesman for the Durham Regional Police, said a person noticed a woman acting strangely with a young child around 4 p.m. last Thursday in Ajax, Ont.<\/p>\n<p>Selby said a witness saw the woman holding the boy on the railing of a bridge near a park and started talking to her \u2014 trying to get her to walk back to a nearby parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after, the witness saw the woman and the boy heading toward the beach area.<\/p>\n<p>The witness told police that the woman was allegedly holding the boy under water.<\/p>\n<p>Selby said two people, including the first witness, helped bring the boy to shore and wrapped him in warm clothing.<\/p>\n<p>He said the child was treated by paramedics and taken to hospital, but has since been released to his father.<\/p>\n<p>A 29-year-old woman from Ajax was taken into custody under the Mental Health Act and was later charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault and failing to provide the necessaries of life.<\/p>\n<p>The woman hasn&#8217;t been named in order to protect the child.<\/p>\n<p>Selby said the two citizens, whose names also haven&#8217;t been released, have been put forward for recognition for their assistance in the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AJAX, Ont.\u2014A mother is facing multiple charges, including attempted murder, after she allegedly tried to drown her three-year-old son near &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":89353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[15159,15160],"class_list":["post-89352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-david-selby","tag-durham-regional-police","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}