Paramedics who performed life-saving measures on the dying boy were puzzled.

Why was he wearing a wetsuit? Why was he lying in a pool of liquid? And, most critically, what caused a 12-year-old child to go into cardiac arrest?

On Monday, emergency personnel who tried to save the boy’s life in a Burlington residence testified at the trial of the two women now charged with his murder on Dec. 21, 2022. Becky Hamber and Brandy Cooney have pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder, as well as other offences related to his younger brother. The couple was trying to adopt the Indigenous brothers, who had been living with them since October 2017. The boys cannot be identified under a court publication ban.

The prosecution argues Hamber and Cooney “despised” the boy and left him to die .

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