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Dept: Allyson McConnell is scheduled for early release Thursday after serving two-thirds of a 15-month jail term for manslaughter, according to Vancouver Sun. Court heard she and her husband were in the middle of a bitter divorce and she wanted to take her children back to Australia and EDMONTON - Alberta justice officials say they are pressing the federal government to prevent a woman who drowned her two young sons from travelling back to her native Australia. The depressed and suicidal woman killed her children in the town of Millet, just south of Edmonton, in 2010. She later drove to the city, jumped off a busy overpass and was rushed to hospital. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.