After denying at her murder trial on Monday that she routinely used restraints on the little boys she was planning to adopt, Brandy Cooney admitted on Tuesday to a variety of methods to control the children while being cross-examined by the Crown.

Cooney and her wife, Becky Hamber, are accused of first-degree murder in the death of the older boy, who was found unresponsive and soaking wet in his bedroom at the age of 12 in the couple’s Burlington basement on Dec. 21, 2022; they’re also facing charges of unlawful confinement, assault, and failing to provide the necessaries of life in relation to his surviving younger brother. The CAS had placed the brothers in the women’s care in 2017. Both boys’ identities are covered by a publication ban.

Cooney’s admission about the restraints on Tue

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