Really, this Catholic was forgiven without going to sacramental confession to confess this serious sin? Please note her disparagement of the fact that her mother had brought "religious" reinforcements so that she could confess her sins. Apparently, she didn't confess and it doesn't sound as though she returned to the Church.
She is lucky that she was given a second chance and that her child survived. But this supposed "near death" experience does not take the place of genuine repentance. As a Catholic, even a lapsed Catholic, she is held to a higher standard than just wishing her sins away. She apparently didn't have the humility to ask for God's forgiveness, she just presumed that she received it because she regretted her act but regretting one's act is not genuine contrition.
...”regretting one’s act is not genuine contrition”....
Exactly...there was much theatrics in her “testimony”...and not unusual when people go thru these mind altering experiences. I was once under a morphine drip for a surgical proceedure and my family shared all sorts of things I was saying and experiencing which I had no memory of. My daughter in law works in a er trauma unit and said she sees much that drugs and trauma do to people...and they really believe these things they see in their minds...some are better experiences than others..they are trained to re-ground people from the places their minds take them.