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B.C. babysitter must be acquitted in toddler’s drowning death, Supreme Court rules

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Tammy Marion Bouvette pleaded guilty to criminal negligence causing the death of a 19-month-old in 2011. Her conviction was later overturned, but a B.C. court declined to enter an acquittal. On Friday, Canada’s Supreme Court ruled that Bouvette should be acquitted.