Mom plans to appeal daughter's sentence

In Calgary this February, a jury convicted Natalie Pasqua, 27 of second-degree murder in the death of Gage Provost, 17. The conviction carries an automatic life sentence.
The Court of Queen's Bench Justice John Rooke decided Pasqua would not be eligible for parole for 12 years.
Rooke cited Pasqua's criminal record and that in the eyes of the law she was an adult who killed a child.
Pasqua's mother, who declined to give her full name out of fear of for her safety, says systemic racism worked against her daughter in the courtroom. The second-degree murder charge was too harsh, stated her mother and she plans on appealing the sentence her daughter received.
The jury heard that Prevost and Pasqua were fighting over a $10 drug deal for crack cocaine. Provost pushed Pasqua onto the empty Calgary light rail transit track on August 1, 2007. Witnesses testified she climbed back onto the platform and struggled with Provost before pushing him twice into the oncoming train.
Pasqua maintained in court that she didn't mean to kill the teenager.