EDMONTON – Edmonton police have started mending fences with Crown prosecutors after a high profile public dispute in the case of a dead child, but the conflict may not be over.

Chief Warren Driechel says police are waiting to see what sentence is imposed before deciding whether to take the unusual step of releasing more details of the killing of the eight-year-old girl so the public can determine if justice has been served.

“I don’t want to commit to one path or another right now, because we’ve got a lot of time to figure this out,” he said in an interview Wednesday.

“Hopefully we never get there.”

A 29-year-old woman charged with second-degree murder pleaded guilty last month to a reduced charge of manslaughter.

Court heard the girl faced chronic abuse and neglect before she died of

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