Photo: Lac des Deux-Montagnes Police Department – photo archive Quebec’s Human Rights Commission says it is investigating after two children were orphaned after what police suspect was the murder of their mother by their father. The commission says it believes children’s rights may have been violated based on media reports of the incident. The children were found in a home in the Montreal suburb of Ste-Marthe-sur-le-Lac where their mother was found dead on Wednesday. Police say they believe the 39-year-old woman was killed by her partner. The woman’s husband, a 42-year-old man, was later found in a car with serious injuries and died in hospital. A federation of women’s shelters in Quebec says this would be the seventh death of a woman by a current or former intimate partner this year in the province, if the police theory is correct.
