Prospective parents accused of murder withheld food from 2 brothers as punishment, Crown tells Ontario trial | Unpublished
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Prospective parents accused of murder withheld food from 2 brothers as punishment, Crown tells Ontario trial

December 11, 2025

A central question throughout the weeks-long trial for Brandy Cooney and Becky Hamber of Burlington, Ont., has been why, in the last year of his life, 12-year-old L.L. was so severely malnourished. The Crown argues they were intentionally restricting what the boy ate.



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