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9/14/2009
The trial for a woman accused of strangling her teenage daughter in their Fairview home in southeast Calgary 2-and-a-half years ago began Monday with both sides entering an agreed statement of facts as to what happened.
In the statement, 38-year-old Aset Magomadova, a Chechnyan refugee, admitted to strangling her 14-year-old daughter Aminat, with a scarf in February 2007.
Outside court, defence lawyer Mark Tyndale says the family had many struggles and he'll argue it was self defence.
Tyndale says the teen was experiencing increasing problems at home, in school and with authorities, and had threatened her mother with knife prior to the incident.
The accused also admitted to making phone calls to Europe for ten minutes before calling 911 and that no attempt was made to revive the girl.
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