Brenda Batisse, the 29-year-old Kirkland Lake woman who abducted a newborn from St. Joseph’s Health Centre last November, has lost her bid for bail as she awaits the appeal of her five-year prison sentence.
Justice Eleanor Cronk of the Ontario Court of Appeal threw out an application filed by Batisse’s lawyer Berk Keaney, saying the facts in the case supported the detention of Batisse “in the public interest.”
Cronk added it was unlikely Batisse would win her appeal and get a conditional sentence.
“This is not an easy case for the determination of bail,” Cronk said. “The applicant’s unique circumstances are compelling. But so, too, are the anguishing and grave circumstances of the offence.”
Batisse stunned the hospital on Nov. 1, 2007 when she abducted the baby, just four hours old. Police found the baby seven and a half hours later, unharmed with Batisse in Kirkland Lake.
