Couple have pleaded not guilty to murder in the Dec. 21, 2022 death of child

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The second mom accused of killing the emaciated 12-year-old that she and her wife planned to adopt is now testifying in her own defence, insisting she loved both the boy and his surviving brother and never mistreated them.

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How defiant and self-assured Becky Hamber presents in the witness stand, despite evidence throughout this marathon trial in Milton Superior Court that has painted her and her wife Brandy Cooney as mothers from hell.

“I loved them both. They were honestly amazing kids,” Hamber testified. “Sometimes,” she added, “they were hard to like.”

Hamber admitted the boy found unresponsive and soaking wet on the floor of his basement bedroom, weighing the size of a child half his age, had spent the last year of his life in a zip-tied wetsuit. She likened it to a “hug” and claimed it was for the troubled boy’s own protection because it couldn’t be ripped and its pieces used for manual strangulation. It also prevented his excessive masturbation, she said, and their Halton children’s aid workers were well aware of its........

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