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Dec 9, 2025
'That's how I speak': Prospective mom testifies about giving CPR to dying boy, defends calling him 'loser,' 'moron'
'That's how I speak': Prospective mom testifies about giving CPR to dying boy, defends calling him 'loser,' 'moron'
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Her voice trembling, a woman on Monday described the final moments of the 12-year-old boy she's accused of murdering -- a child she was planning to adopt and insisted she always loved, despite referring to him in numerous text messages by terms such as "loser" or "it."
After four months of evidence presented by the Crown at the harrowing trial at the Milton courthouse, Brandy Cooney walked out of the prisoner's box in her green jail uniform and took the stand in her own defence as her wife and co-accused, Becky Hamber, looked on from a separate box, taking notes.
Cooney recounted for the court her actions on the night of Dec. 21, 2022, when she went down to the bedroom in her Burlington basement to check on the boy she and Hamber were planning to adopt, along with his younger brother. Both boys' identities are covered by a publication ban.
ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Ontario 'Hope he gets an infection': Prospective moms called boy 'loser' in texts years before his death, Ontario murder trial hears
Becky Hamber and Brandy Cooney's murder trial began hearing mountains of evidence from their seized phones on Monday, including disjointed text
Ontario 'Hope he gets an infection': Prospective moms called boy 'loser' in texts years before his death, Ontario murder trial hears
Becky Hamber and Brandy Cooney's murder trial began hearing mountains of evidence from their seized phones on Monday, including disjointed text
"I opened the door and said, 'Hey, buddy," Cooney said. "He was face down, and he didn't respond to me, so I dove through liquid or vomit or both all over the ground, and I screamed for my wife and said, 'Becky, call 911.'"
She took him off his cot and placed him on the floor. Hamber told her to do CPR and "I breathed in my kid's mouth, twice," Cooney testified. Paramedics soon took over, but the boy was declared dead at the hospital, and his younger brother was taken from the home wit
