"Taking the witness box in her murder trial for the first time, Brandy Cooney said she called the boy she and her wife were trying to adopt a moron and loser, used zip-ties to confine him in a wetsuit and locked him in his room. Cooney told Superior Court in Milton, Ont., on Monday that she knew the 12-year-old was severely underweight in the fall of 2022 and recalled how he'd told her he was afraid he would die."
"Cooney also searched I hate my child on her iPad two days before his death, she told the trial that began in mid-September. But under questioning from her lawyer, Kim Edward, Cooney said she loved him, yet was frustrated with what she said was a lack of support from the Children's Aid Society (CAS), therapists and doctors to help the boy. I hated the [boy's] behaviours, said Cooney. I hated that we couldn't be a functional family."
Brandy Cooney testified she called the 12-year-old moron and loser, used zip-ties to confine him in a wetsuit and locked him in his room. She acknowledged knowing the boy was severely underweight in fall 2022 and recalled him saying he feared he would die. Cooney searched I hate my child on her iPad two days before the boy's death. She said she loved him but was frustrated by a perceived lack of support from the Children's Aid Society, therapists and doctors and that she hated the boy's behaviours and the family's dysfunction. Cooney and Becky Hamber face multiple charges including first-degree murder.
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