A Bridgewater woman convicted of murdering her own daughter in 2008 has been granted six days of escorted temporary leave from prison.
Penny Boudreau will receive six days of temporary leave over 12 months to allow her to attend church according to a recent Parole Board of Canada decision.
This decision adds two extra days to a 2018 decision by the PBC, allowing Boudreau only four days of leave.
Each leave will allow Boudreau three hours outside of prison to attend church services every second month.
Sentenced to Life
Boudreau was charged with the murder of her daughter, 12-year-old Karissa Boudreau, in 2008 after her body was found on a riverbank near Bridgewater.
She had reported her daughter missing on January 27, 2008 before taking the teenager to a remote area outside town and strangling her with a piece of twine.
Boudreau then drove her daughter’s body to Conquerall Bank and dropped it down a hill off the area highway.
In the subsequent days after the murder and disposal of Karissa, Boudreau made multiple public appeals for information on her daughters whereabouts.
After confessing to the murder during a Mr. Big sting operation, Boudreau said she killed Karissa to avoid losing her then boyfriend, who she claims gave the ultimatum of ‘Either she goes, or I do,’ however Crown prosecutors said he had no role in the murder.
Boudreau pleaded guilty to second degree murder in 2009 and is currently serving a life sentence in prison, with possible parole after 20 years.
