MONTREAL – The murder trial of a Laval woman accused of killing her two young daughters won’t proceed until next year, court was told Thursday morning.
Quebec Superior Court Justice André Vincent was told Adele Sorella has yet to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, making it impossible to schedule the lengthy trial until well into 2013.
Sorella, 46, was arrested in 2009, after the deaths of her two daughters, Amanda and Sabrina. The girls’ bodies were found inside their family home in Laval.
Sorella’s trial is expected to last up to eight weeks. Prosecutor Isabelle Briand told Vincent that the Crown intends to bring forward 25 witnesses.
Briand also noted that the Crown has been ready to proceed since September 2011.
Vincent said he didn’t want to set a trial date for 2012 without knowing when the psychiatric evaluation will be completed.
He said it made no sense to fix a court date, and prevent other people from having a trial this year, without knowing if the evaluation will be ready.
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