What is it: ‘Kill Your Child and Get Away With It Month’?

- A grieving mother had one request for outraged Quebecers after a jury let her ex-husband, who repeatedly stabbed their children to death, off without jail time: vengeance is not the answer.

Pending a psychiatric evaluation, Guy Turcotte might now walk free within weeks despite having admitted to killing the two youngsters.

The level of outrage over the decision was made clear as social-networking sites exploded with the news as regular Quebecers took to the Internet to express their disgust.

It was the children’s mother, Isabelle Gaston, who appealed for calm. Despite expressing her own shock at the verdict, she urged the public against resorting to vigiliantism.

“Wish us peace,” Gaston, a physician, told reporters at the courthouse in St-Jerome, just outside Montreal.

“No violence against whomever — even the father, or myself — … would restore justice.”

The shocking details of the case have been front and centre in the news for the past few months as the sensational trial made Turcotte a household name in Quebec.

Turcotte had been charged with first-degree murder after police found his son Olivier, 5, and daughter Anne-Sophie, 3, dead in their beds.

They had been stabbed 46 times.

While the 39-year-old ex-cardiologist admitted to having caused their deaths, in a rented home north of Montreal in 2009, he denied criminal intent.

The defence focused on Turcotte’s state of mind at the time of the killings and dragged out its closing argument over an exhaustive four days, compared to the prosecution’s several hours.

His lawyers argued that the former cardiologist loved his children but was unable to cope with the breakup of his marriage and he was feeling increasingly marginalized by Gaston’s new beau.

Turcotte said he planned to end his own life on the night of Feb. 20, 2009, after reading e-mails between Gaston and her new lover, her personal trainer Martin Huot.

He started drinking windshield washer fluid to that end, but decided at some point that he didn’t want his children to wake up the following morning and find their father dead.

So, according to his testimony, Turcotte decided that he’d take the children with him.

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Guy Turcotte holds his daughter Anne-Sophie in an undated handout photo. Turcotte, …