A trial is underway for an Alberta foster parent accused in the death of a five-year-old boy who had significant disabilities.

The boy was found dead on the afternoon June 14, 2022, in a garage at a rural property near Leduc, Alta.

He’d been placed in the front seat of an SUV that morning while the man took other children in the home to school. Court heard the boy was non-verbal, and had physical disabilities that meant he couldn’t sit up unassisted or maintain control of his head, neck or trunk.

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He stayed there for hours before the couple caring for him found him unresponsive on the floor of the vehicle and called 911. Paramedics declared him dead at the scene, and an autopsy determined that he suffocated.

After an applicatio

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