The 28-year-old woman from Ste-Marthe-sur-le-Lac, northwest of Montreal, was initially charged in November 2017 with six counts -- including three counts of murder -- but pleaded guilty to new charges filed by the Crown on Wednesday.

First responders were called to an apartment on Notre-Dame Street West Friday night around 10:30 p.m.

The latest statistics show that of all children under the age of five who died in 2016, 46 per cent were under 28 days old. That's up from 41 per cent in 2000.