Edmonton police are objecting to the Crown prosecution service’s planned plea deal in the case of a woman charged with murdering an eight-year-old girl — a move they acknowledge is an “extraordinary step” without recent, if any, precedent.

On Monday, the Edmonton Police Service (EPS) sent a letter to provincial assistant deputy justice minister Kim Goddard expressing “shock and horror” on learning the woman is expected to plead down from first-degree murder to manslaughter at a court hearing Wednesday. The woman — who cannot be named under a publication ban — was charged in 2023 after the girl’s body was moved from Edmonton to Maskwacis in a hockey bag and abandoned in the bed of a pickup.

In the letter, EPS executive director of legal services Megan Hankewich said the accused has been o

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