What is everybody getting upset about, at least there was a fine.  Apparently in Canada the penalty for purposely drowning your child is 2 years probation...if you are a woman. 

"A mother who drowned her newborn son in a sink before leaving her home to write a university exam will not spend time behind bars, though a judge described her actions as "abhorrent."Courtney Saul was sentenced to two years' probation in provincial court in Kamloops, B.C."