A woman convicted of killing her two children has been granted bail as she awaits a retrial.
Adele Sorella was convicted in 2013 of killing her daughters four years earlier, but last week Quebec's Court of Appeal overturned the ruling citing several issues, including errors made by the trial judge in instructing the jury.
It ordered a new trial, and Sorella then applied for bail pending the new proceedings.
On Friday, that request was granted; the Crown did not object to her release, noting she respected her bail conditions for two years while she was free before her first murder trial.
She was required to post a bond of $25,000, and her conditions include not leaving the country.
Sorella's children, nine-year-old Amanda and eight-year-old Sabrina, died of asphyxiation in 2009 when the oxygen supply to a hyperbaric chamber was cut off. The Crown argued she had convinced her children to stay in the chamber, purchased to treat Sabrina's juvenile arthritis, until they suffocated and died from lack of air.
The children died while Sorella's ex-husband, convicted mobster Giuseppe De Vito, was a fugitive from the law.
He died in prison in 2013 of what is believed to be cyanide poisoning, barely a month after Sorella was first convicted of killing their children.