The night before her toddler son was rushed to hospital with what would be a fatal head injury, Rose-Anne Van De Wiele was in the middle of the routine tasks of maintaining a household and raising four sons.

Her three older boys had finished their homework and were outside playing. Her youngest, Nathaniel McLellan, 15 months, was in the house with her when she decided she had time to clean off a shelf before her husband came home from work.

An exterior steel door with a window separated the laundry room from the rest of the North Middlesex home. She went back and forth through the door a number of times, until she bumped into something on the other side.

It was little Nathaniel, who was so small that he couldn’t be seen through the door’s window. He had been knocked backward and was on

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