Recent content by Ceedee

This woman was probably in crisis (mentally, in a terrible personal situation or both). She left her baby in a church on a Sunday - somewhere warm and dry and where she knew she’d be found. I doubt this will make it to a trial but still, what benefit is there in charging her?

I could be wrong, but I’m imagining a passport that’s properly issued by the government, obtained with false information. Let’s say John Smith fills it out with all his details and Rob Jones’ photo attached. If the government approves and issues it, Rob Jones will be able to travel as John Smith...

Her testimony so far has been really disturbing but also really damaging to their defence. Beyond not coming off as honest/forthcoming or sympathetic, the Crown has covered a lot of ground that really works against them - more abusive behaviour, more awful texts and a complete lack of proof for...

In the year before they were arrested for murder (while they were on bail for charges related to abusing the surviving brother), one of the moms made a series of videos about the boy’s death. She lies about the use of restraints, takes no responsibility for his death, and says her theory about...

Every day of this is truly worse than the last. Gift article on today’s round of text messages: ‘Do you think he’s dying?’: Prospective mom texted ‘I’m going to jail’ one month before severely malnourished boy’s death The only potential bright spot here imo is the article noting the judge was...

CBC also published this informative article yesterday: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/cooney-hamber-trial-9.6961836 What’s consistently jumping out at me is that while the foster moms were lining up these services, it doesn’t seem like this child could ever speak with anyone alone -...

Someone from CAS is finally testifying. The personal and institutional failures from almost every professional involved here are astounding. Gift link: A CAS worker saw a 12-year-old boy three months before his alleged murder. What she saw left her deeply worried

CBC has a good high level overview of some of the evidence presented by the Crown so far: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/hamber-cooney-trial-9.6952270

Every day of this trial someone brings a worse detail on a different adult that failed these children. Today, a social worker who was their family therapist testified that although she knew the women were zip-tying the boy’s clothes shut, she never spoke to the women about it directly or called...

No, I think they worded it that way to emphasize that although they are being tried together, they each have their own legal teams. Hamber is being represented by Monte MacGregor and Nabeel Sheiban, and Cooney is being represented by Kim Edward. It makes sense that they’d have separate...

According to Global, “both the Crown and the defence agreed on the facts of the case, including that the woman’s mental state should prevent her from being convicted.” https://globalnews.ca/news/11428401/quebec-mom-abandoned-toddler-not-criminally-responsible/amp/ I hope her treatment is...

I think they mean figuratively - she probably wrote down or typed his name when they asked what attacked her. I can’t imagine how chilling and awful it would be for everyone in the room to expect her to tell them it was a bear or coyote or whatever and to get a teenage boy’s name instead.

I get that the YCJA is serving it’s purpose of ensuring that not everyone with access to a search engine or a newspaper knows his name, but in a town that small there’s no way every resident doesn’t know exactly who this kid is.

Ugh. Poor little thing will have no idea why this has happened to her, will probably want mom and be really confused/upset about her not being around.

Global News reporting today that his killers pleaded guilty to second degree murder and manslaughter, and their sentencing hearings are underway. There’s an agreed statement of facts on what happened: Heartbroken mother speaks at sentencing for trio who videoed fatal stabbing of Toronto man -...