She was acquitted in earlier trial after Crown abandoned case
A woman who was once acquitted of concealing a dead baby has pleaded not guilty to charges of neglecting another infant and concealing its death.
Ivana Levkovic, 28, stood in Superior Court on Monday and pleaded not guilty before Justice Michael Dambrot to neglecting to obtain assistance in childbirth and concealing the dead body of a child.
Standing beside defence lawyer Michael Moon, Levkovic elected to be tried by judge alone, rather than by jury.
Police have alleged that Levkovic wrapped the baby’s body in plastic and stored it in a freezer for several years before dumping the remains in the Humber River in January 2005.
The baby’s body was never found.
The person who provided police with the information — and who was alleged to have been a party to dumping the body in the river — died while awaiting trial on an unrelated criminal matter.
Moon has previously said his client denies ever having a child in Toronto, and labelled the man who made the allegation against her as a “pimp and a drug addict.”
The case returns to court June 21 for pre-trial arguments, with trial set for September. Levkovic is free on bail.
In 2008, Levkovic was acquitted in Peel Region on a charge of concealing a dead baby. She was arrested after a severely decomposed baby was found in a duffle bag on the balcony of a Mississauga apartment on April 5, 2006.
In that case, the court heard that Levkovic moved out of the North Service Rd. apartment about two days before a superintendent discovered the body.
She was charged under a law that makes it a criminal offence to give birth to a baby and then concealing its birth, regardless of when it died.
Levkovic was acquitted after a prosecutor told Superior Court Justice Casey Hill that he would not be able to produce evidence to support the indictment.
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