A Quebecer who killed her spouse and two children will remain in a men’s prison, Canadian authorities said Wednesday.
Mohamad Al Ballouz, who now identifies as a woman, was sentenced last December after being convicted of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of Synthia Bussières, 38, and of first-degree murder in the deaths of their two kids, aged five and two. The killings happened in September of 2022 in Brossard, on Montreal’s South Shore.
During the trial, Ballouz had been held at Leclerc Institution, a women’s detention centre in Laval, Que., and was later transferred to a men’s prison. The 38-year-old later requested to serve the sentence in a women’s prison.
