Two days before a boy in their care died, someone in Becky Hamber and Brandy Cooney’s home used an iPad to Google “I hate my child,” the women’s first-degree murder trial was told Thursday.

In the weeks after he died, searches on devices belonging to the couple included how to define homicide, how to delete footage from a Wyze security camera system and how to clean up a crime scene.

Sgt. Julie Powers, the Halton police officer who investigated Cooney and Hamber, has testified all week about evidence police found on their electronic devices — including photos, surveillance video, audio recordings and text messages from 2019 through 2022. The sergeant said many text messages were deleted on Dec. 25, 2022, but were recovered.

The Milton, Ont., courtroom listened to recordings of the women

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