Woman who drowned infant son to serve time at home

Glenda Luymes, The Province

SURREY -- The baby's birth was a miracle to his parents.

His death, four months later, can only be called a tragedy.

Jasvinder Kang, 44, received a two-year community sentence in Surrey Provincial Court yesterday after pleading guilty to infanticide.

Six years after her baby's death, it remains unclear what caused the Surrey mother to throw her infant son into a swimming pool and leave him there to drown.

According to defence lawyer Russ Chamberlain, baby Jasvir's birth in January 2002 was both a "blessing and a miracle to [his] family" after seven years of trying to conceive.