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In final day alive, boy was screaming, vomiting in locked room as couple watched on camera, Ont. court told
In Milton court, Becky Hamber, Brandy c00ney pleaded not guilty to 1st-degree murder
On the final day before a 12-year-old boy died, he was locked in his basement bedroom as his prospective adoptive parents watched him on camera — throwing up, screaming and kicking the door, a murder trial in Milton, Ont., has been told.
By around 6 p.m. ET on Dec. 21, 2022, the court heard Monday, the boy seemed calmer, Brandy c00ney and Becky Hamber told a Halton Children’s Aid Society (CAS) protection worker in an interview the next day.
But when c00ney went to check on him, she found “vomit everywhere” and he was unresponsive, protection worker Faisel Modhi said in the witness box, referring to his notes from the interview.
Modhi testified the women called 911 and told him they had performed CPR on the boy before paramedics and firefighters took over with no success. The boy was rushed to hospital, where he died shortly after. He was severely malnourished, emaciated and weighing the same as a six-year-old.
c00ney and Hamber have pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder of the boy they were trying to adopt. CBC is referring to him as L.L. as his identity is protected by a court publication ban.
They’ve also pleaded not guilty to confinement, assault with a weapon — zip ties — and failing to provide the necessaries of life to L.L.'s younger brother, J.L., who testified recently in the judge-alone trial. Proceedings in Superior Court began in mid-September and are expected to continue into December.
The Crown argues the couple hated, abused and neglected the children, and exaggerated or made up many of the behavioural problems they reported to service providers.
The women’s respective lawyers argue the two were doing their best to care for the Indigenous brothers with high needs, with little help from the CAS and service providers.
Testimony on why L.L. weighed only 48 pounds
Modhi began investigating c00ney and Hamber after L.L. died and while J.L. was still in their care. The boys were wards of the CAS in Ottawa, where they were from, and lived with the women in Burlington from 2017 to 2022.
Modhi interviewed c00ney and Hamber in a hotel room on Dec. 22, 2022, and viewed a few clips from the camera in L.L.’s room that had been saved on one of the women’s phones, Modhi told Crown attorney Kelli Frew.
L.L. woke up at about 11:30 a.m. on Dec. 21, Modhi said. The boy slept on a small cot, not a bed, and there was vomit on the mattress cover that morning, which was a regular occurrence, he said the women told him.
c00ney’s father, who also lived in the house, didn’t wash the cover, but instead used a wipe to clean up the vomit, telling Modhi an interview, “'Do you know how much laundry [c00ney and Hamber] had to do already?'”
For the rest of that day, L.L. was mostly alone and given a breakfast of cereal with protein powder and lunch. He threw up both meals, which c00ney and Hamber told Modhi was because he regurgitated his food and was part of an eating disorder.
Previously, he’d been on a liquid-only diet, Modhi said the couple told him.
“They admitted [L.L.] was 48 pounds, but stated it was because he would throw up food, chew it again and lick it off the floor,” Modhi said.
Boy screamed, ‘This is not going to get any better’
L.L. also kicked and punched the locked door, screamed and cried, Modhi said. In response, the women would play him music and instruct him to walk around his room or do yoga poses. It was unclear to Modhi how the women were communicating with L.L., but the court has heard they’d often use the camera speaker like an intercom instead of going into his room.At one point, in a video clip of L.L.’s room, Becky is heard yelling over the camera speaker “for him to lay down because he was being disrespectful,” Modhi said.
At another, L.L. screamed, “‘This is not going to get any better.'”
The video clips of L.L.’s room stopped at about 5 p.m., Modhi said, adding they were likely deleted or the camera was turned off. Hamber and c00ney said their internet was “spotty” and the many cameras throughout their house didn’t always work.
By early evening, L.L. was given a smoothie and milk in a baby bottle, Modhi noted. c00ney said she then took a blanket away from him, which made him upset, and she told him to “calm down.” The next time she checked on him, he was unresponsive on the floor and covered in his own vomit.
When paramedics arrived, they found him inexplicably soaking wet, cold and with a wetsuit on the floor nearby. The women didn’t explain to Modhi why he had been wearing a wetsuit.
It was later determined his body temperature was dangerously low. A pathologist has testified he couldn’t determine L.L.’s cause of death, but didn’t rule out hypothermia or malnourishment.
Brother not immediately removed
After the interview with the women, Modhi spoke briefly to J.L. alone in another hotel room, but the boy appeared “very nervous,” didn’t provide much information and repeated the phrases, “Everything is OK, everything is fine — nothing needs to change,” Modhi told the court.
A CAS supervisor decided not to remove J.L. from c00ney’s and Hamber’s care that night, Modhi said.
“I did initially have concerns in leaving him in the hotel room, but we were still in the initial stages of the investigation — he was in a public area [the hotel], wasn’t being confined and it was already late,” said Modhi.
About 24 hours later, he, another CAS worker and police returned to the hotel, and told c00ney and Hamber they’d be removing J.L. from their care.
Initially, J.L. cried in the presence of c00ney and Hamber, but when he was alone with the CAS workers, he appeared happy and talkative, Modhi said.
He stayed in another foster home for weeks, where the Crown highlighted his success playing with other children and being weaned off many medications he was taking while living with c00ney and Hamber.
Defence questions accuracy of worker's notes
Hamber’s lawyer, Monte MacGregor, cross-examined Modhi, questioning how accurate his notes were and highlighting that he wasn’t fully aware of the boys’ history, including violent outbursts at school.MacGregor also focused on J.L.’s behaviour while in the new foster home after his older brother died. He ate too much and threw up, hoarded food, threatened to harm himself and ran away — all behaviours c00ney and Hamber had raised concerns about in the past.
But Modhi said he wasn’t surprised by the younger boy's behaviour as his brother had just died, he’d been removed from what he thought was his forever home and he was living with new people.
“The trauma of that alone — would it set him off? Potentially yes. It’s very common to see kids with these types of behaviour after significant trauma.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/c00ney-hamber-milton-ontario-trial-9.6982064
In final day alive, boy was screaming, vomiting in locked room as couple watched on camera, Ont. court told
In Milton court, Becky Hamber, Brandy c00ney pleaded not guilty to 1st-degree murder
On the final day before a 12-year-old boy died, he was locked in his basement bedroom as his prospective adoptive parents watched him on camera — throwing up, screaming and kicking the door, a murder trial in Milton, Ont., has been told.
By around 6 p.m. ET on Dec. 21, 2022, the court heard Monday, the boy seemed calmer, Brandy c00ney and Becky Hamber told a Halton Children’s Aid Society (CAS) protection worker in an interview the next day.
But when c00ney went to check on him, she found “vomit everywhere” and he was unresponsive, protection worker Faisel Modhi said in the witness box, referring to his notes from the interview.
Modhi testified the women called 911 and told him they had performed CPR on the boy before paramedics and firefighters took over with no success. The boy was rushed to hospital, where he died shortly after. He was severely malnourished, emaciated and weighing the same as a six-year-old.
c00ney and Hamber have pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder of the boy they were trying to adopt. CBC is referring to him as L.L. as his identity is protected by a court publication ban.
They’ve also pleaded not guilty to confinement, assault with a weapon — zip ties — and failing to provide the necessaries of life to L.L.'s younger brother, J.L., who testified recently in the judge-alone trial. Proceedings in Superior Court began in mid-September and are expected to continue into December.
The Crown argues the couple hated, abused and neglected the children, and exaggerated or made up many of the behavioural problems they reported to service providers.
The women’s respective lawyers argue the two were doing their best to care for the Indigenous brothers with high needs, with little help from the CAS and service providers.
Testimony on why L.L. weighed only 48 pounds
Modhi began investigating c00ney and Hamber after L.L. died and while J.L. was still in their care. The boys were wards of the CAS in Ottawa, where they were from, and lived with the women in Burlington from 2017 to 2022.
Modhi interviewed c00ney and Hamber in a hotel room on Dec. 22, 2022, and viewed a few clips from the camera in L.L.’s room that had been saved on one of the women’s phones, Modhi told Crown attorney Kelli Frew.
L.L. woke up at about 11:30 a.m. on Dec. 21, Modhi said. The boy slept on a small cot, not a bed, and there was vomit on the mattress cover that morning, which was a regular occurrence, he said the women told him.
c00ney’s father, who also lived in the house, didn’t wash the cover, but instead used a wipe to clean up the vomit, telling Modhi an interview, “'Do you know how much laundry [c00ney and Hamber] had to do already?'”
For the rest of that day, L.L. was mostly alone and given a breakfast of cereal with protein powder and lunch. He threw up both meals, which c00ney and Hamber told Modhi was because he regurgitated his food and was part of an eating disorder.
Previously, he’d been on a liquid-only diet, Modhi said the couple told him.
“They admitted [L.L.] was 48 pounds, but stated it was because he would throw up food, chew it again and lick it off the floor,” Modhi said.
Boy screamed, ‘This is not going to get any better’
L.L. also kicked and punched the locked door, screamed and cried, Modhi said. In response, the women would play him music and instruct him to walk around his room or do yoga poses. It was unclear to Modhi how the women were communicating with L.L., but the court has heard they’d often use the camera speaker like an intercom instead of going into his room.
At one point, in a video clip of L.L.’s room, Becky is heard yelling over the camera speaker “for him to lay down because he was being disrespectful,” Modhi said.
At another, L.L. screamed, “‘This is not going to get any better.'”
The video clips of L.L.’s room stopped at about 5 p.m., Modhi said, adding they were likely deleted or the camera was turned off. Hamber and c00ney said their internet was “spotty” and the many cameras throughout their house didn’t always work.
By early evening, L.L. was given a smoothie and milk in a baby bottle, Modhi noted. c00ney said she then took a blanket away from him, which made him upset, and she told him to “calm down.” The next time she checked on him, he was unresponsive on the floor and covered in his own vomit.
When paramedics arrived, they found him inexplicably soaking wet, cold and with a wetsuit on the floor nearby. The women didn’t explain to Modhi why he had been wearing a wetsuit.
It was later determined his body temperature was dangerously low. A pathologist has testified he couldn’t determine L.L.’s cause of death, but didn’t rule out hypothermia or malnourishment.
Brother not immediately removed
After the interview with the women, Modhi spoke briefly to J.L. alone in another hotel room, but the boy appeared “very nervous,” didn’t provide much information and repeated the phrases, “Everything is OK, everything is fine — nothing needs to change,” Modhi told the court.
A CAS supervisor decided not to remove J.L. from c00ney’s and Hamber’s care that night, Modhi said.
“I did initially have concerns in leaving him in the hotel room, but we were still in the initial stages of the investigation — he was in a public area [the hotel], wasn’t being confined and it was already late,” said Modhi.
About 24 hours later, he, another CAS worker and police returned to the hotel, and told c00ney and Hamber they’d be removing J.L. from their care.
Initially, J.L. cried in the presence of c00ney and Hamber, but when he was alone with the CAS workers, he appeared happy and talkative, Modhi said.
He stayed in another foster home for weeks, where the Crown highlighted his success playing with other children and being weaned off many medications he was taking while living with c00ney and Hamber.
Defence questions accuracy of worker's notes
Hamber’s lawyer, Monte MacGregor, cross-examined Modhi, questioning how accurate his notes were and highlighting that he wasn’t fully aware of the boys’ history, including violent outbursts at school.
MacGregor also focused on J.L.’s behaviour while in the new foster home after his older brother died. He ate too much and threw up, hoarded food, threatened to harm himself and ran away — all behaviours c00ney and Hamber had raised concerns about in the past.
But Modhi said he wasn’t surprised by the younger boy's behaviour as his brother had just died, he’d been removed from what he thought was his forever home and he was living with new people.
“The trauma of that alone — would it set him off? Potentially yes. It’s very common to see kids with these types of behaviour after significant trauma.”
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Formerly Jisoo Stan & @Twitter
Toronto Star: ‘That was her source of income’: Co-worker recalls woman said money was why she kept boys at centre of horrific Ontario murder trial [Sept 26th, 2025]
”Brandy c00ney’s former co-worker was so tired of listening to her complaints about the young boys she and her spouse were trying to adopt that she suggested she return them to Children’s Aid.
She was appalled by c00ney’s response.
“That was her source of income, she couldn’t give them back,” Leahann Maloney said, recounting the disturbing exchange for the Milton courtroom where c00ney and Becky Hamber are on trial for first-degree murder of a 12-year-old boy and other offences relating to his younger brother.
“What did you say to her,” asked Crown attorney Kelli Frew.
“First I was just shaking my head, and then I’m like ‘these are children that you need to love and have patience for cause if they’re just around for a source of income, you’re going to have a lot of miserable years.’”
c00ney’s reaction? “That’s what my wife is for,” Maloney said.
”Brandy c00ney’s former co-worker was so tired of listening to her complaints about the young boys she and her spouse were trying to adopt that she suggested she return them to Children’s Aid.
She was appalled by c00ney’s response.
“That was her source of income, she couldn’t give them back,” Leahann Maloney said, recounting the disturbing exchange for the Milton courtroom where c00ney and Becky Hamber are on trial for first-degree murder of a 12-year-old boy and other offences relating to his younger brother.
“What did you say to her,” asked Crown attorney Kelli Frew.
“First I was just shaking my head, and then I’m like ‘these are children that you need to love and have patience for cause if they’re just around for a source of income, you’re going to have a lot of miserable years.’”
c00ney’s reaction? “That’s what my wife is for,” Maloney said.
MVike28
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LGBT adoptions ya'llIn final day alive, boy was screaming, vomiting in locked room as couple watched on camera, Ont. court told
In Milton court, Becky Hamber, Brandy c00ney pleaded not guilty to 1st-degree murder
On the final day before a 12-year-old boy died, he was locked in his basement bedroom as his prospective adoptive parents watched him on camera — throwing up, screaming and kicking the door, a murder trial in Milton, Ont., has been told.
By around 6 p.m. ET on Dec. 21, 2022, the court heard Monday, the boy seemed calmer, Brandy c00ney and Becky Hamber told a Halton Children’s Aid Society (CAS) protection worker in an interview the next day.
But when c00ney went to check on him, she found “vomit everywhere” and he was unresponsive, protection worker Faisel Modhi said in the witness box, referring to his notes from the interview.
Modhi testified the women called 911 and told him they had performed CPR on the boy before paramedics and firefighters took over with no success. The boy was rushed to hospital, where he died shortly after. He was severely malnourished, emaciated and weighing the same as a six-year-old.
c00ney and Hamber have pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder of the boy they were trying to adopt. CBC is referring to him as L.L. as his identity is protected by a court publication ban.
They’ve also pleaded not guilty to confinement, assault with a weapon — zip ties — and failing to provide the necessaries of life to L.L.'s younger brother, J.L., who testified recently in the judge-alone trial. Proceedings in Superior Court began in mid-September and are expected to continue into December.
The Crown argues the couple hated, abused and neglected the children, and exaggerated or made up many of the behavioural problems they reported to service providers.
The women’s respective lawyers argue the two were doing their best to care for the Indigenous brothers with high needs, with little help from the CAS and service providers.
Testimony on why L.L. weighed only 48 pounds
Modhi began investigating c00ney and Hamber after L.L. died and while J.L. was still in their care. The boys were wards of the CAS in Ottawa, where they were from, and lived with the women in Burlington from 2017 to 2022.
Modhi interviewed c00ney and Hamber in a hotel room on Dec. 22, 2022, and viewed a few clips from the camera in L.L.’s room that had been saved on one of the women’s phones, Modhi told Crown attorney Kelli Frew.
L.L. woke up at about 11:30 a.m. on Dec. 21, Modhi said. The boy slept on a small cot, not a bed, and there was vomit on the mattress cover that morning, which was a regular occurrence, he said the women told him.
c00ney’s father, who also lived in the house, didn’t wash the cover, but instead used a wipe to clean up the vomit, telling Modhi an interview, “'Do you know how much laundry [c00ney and Hamber] had to do already?'”
For the rest of that day, L.L. was mostly alone and given a breakfast of cereal with protein powder and lunch. He threw up both meals, which c00ney and Hamber told Modhi was because he regurgitated his food and was part of an eating disorder.
Previously, he’d been on a liquid-only diet, Modhi said the couple told him.
“They admitted [L.L.] was 48 pounds, but stated it was because he would throw up food, chew it again and lick it off the floor,” Modhi said.
Boy screamed, ‘This is not going to get any better’
L.L. also kicked and punched the locked door, screamed and cried, Modhi said. In response, the women would play him music and instruct him to walk around his room or do yoga poses. It was unclear to Modhi how the women were communicating with L.L., but the court has heard they’d often use the camera speaker like an intercom instead of going into his room.
At one point, in a video clip of L.L.’s room, Becky is heard yelling over the camera speaker “for him to lay down because he was being disrespectful,” Modhi said.
At another, L.L. screamed, “‘This is not going to get any better.'”
The video clips of L.L.’s room stopped at about 5 p.m., Modhi said, adding they were likely deleted or the camera was turned off. Hamber and c00ney said their internet was “spotty” and the many cameras throughout their house didn’t always work.
By early evening, L.L. was given a smoothie and milk in a baby bottle, Modhi noted. c00ney said she then took a blanket away from him, which made him upset, and she told him to “calm down.” The next time she checked on him, he was unresponsive on the floor and covered in his own vomit.
When paramedics arrived, they found him inexplicably soaking wet, cold and with a wetsuit on the floor nearby. The women didn’t explain to Modhi why he had been wearing a wetsuit.
It was later determined his body temperature was dangerously low. A pathologist has testified he couldn’t determine L.L.’s cause of death, but didn’t rule out hypothermia or malnourishment.
Brother not immediately removed
After the interview with the women, Modhi spoke briefly to J.L. alone in another hotel room, but the boy appeared “very nervous,” didn’t provide much information and repeated the phrases, “Everything is OK, everything is fine — nothing needs to change,” Modhi told the court.
A CAS supervisor decided not to remove J.L. from c00ney’s and Hamber’s care that night, Modhi said.
“I did initially have concerns in leaving him in the hotel room, but we were still in the initial stages of the investigation — he was in a public area [the hotel], wasn’t being confined and it was already late,” said Modhi.
About 24 hours later, he, another CAS worker and police returned to the hotel, and told c00ney and Hamber they’d be removing J.L. from their care.
Initially, J.L. cried in the presence of c00ney and Hamber, but when he was alone with the CAS workers, he appeared happy and talkative, Modhi said.
He stayed in another foster home for weeks, where the Crown highlighted his success playing with other children and being weaned off many medications he was taking while living with c00ney and Hamber.
Defence questions accuracy of worker's notes
Hamber’s lawyer, Monte MacGregor, cross-examined Modhi, questioning how accurate his notes were and highlighting that he wasn’t fully aware of the boys’ history, including violent outbursts at school.
MacGregor also focused on J.L.’s behaviour while in the new foster home after his older brother died. He ate too much and threw up, hoarded food, threatened to harm himself and ran away — all behaviours c00ney and Hamber had raised concerns about in the past.
But Modhi said he wasn’t surprised by the younger boy's behaviour as his brother had just died, he’d been removed from what he thought was his forever home and he was living with new people.
“The trauma of that alone — would it set him off? Potentially yes. It’s very common to see kids with these types of behaviour after significant trauma.”
MVike28
right around the ACC
What’s the abbreviated version of this?brehs we being attacked
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Her story sparked a viral conversation about how colourism and anti-Blackness shape dating for Black women in supposedly "multicultural" cities.
Happy for her by the sounds of it, it worked out well in Europe?
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Formerly Jisoo Stan & @Twitter
both look psychotic
MVike28
right around the ACC
CAS is a criminal organizationIn final day alive, boy was screaming, vomiting in locked room as couple watched on camera, Ont. court told
In Milton court, Becky Hamber, Brandy c00ney pleaded not guilty to 1st-degree murder
On the final day before a 12-year-old boy died, he was locked in his basement bedroom as his prospective adoptive parents watched him on camera — throwing up, screaming and kicking the door, a murder trial in Milton, Ont., has been told.
By around 6 p.m. ET on Dec. 21, 2022, the court heard Monday, the boy seemed calmer, Brandy c00ney and Becky Hamber told a Halton Children’s Aid Society (CAS) protection worker in an interview the next day.
But when c00ney went to check on him, she found “vomit everywhere” and he was unresponsive, protection worker Faisel Modhi said in the witness box, referring to his notes from the interview.
Modhi testified the women called 911 and told him they had performed CPR on the boy before paramedics and firefighters took over with no success. The boy was rushed to hospital, where he died shortly after. He was severely malnourished, emaciated and weighing the same as a six-year-old.
c00ney and Hamber have pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder of the boy they were trying to adopt. CBC is referring to him as L.L. as his identity is protected by a court publication ban.
They’ve also pleaded not guilty to confinement, assault with a weapon — zip ties — and failing to provide the necessaries of life to L.L.'s younger brother, J.L., who testified recently in the judge-alone trial. Proceedings in Superior Court began in mid-September and are expected to continue into December.
The Crown argues the couple hated, abused and neglected the children, and exaggerated or made up many of the behavioural problems they reported to service providers.
The women’s respective lawyers argue the two were doing their best to care for the Indigenous brothers with high needs, with little help from the CAS and service providers.
Testimony on why L.L. weighed only 48 pounds
Modhi began investigating c00ney and Hamber after L.L. died and while J.L. was still in their care. The boys were wards of the CAS in Ottawa, where they were from, and lived with the women in Burlington from 2017 to 2022.
Modhi interviewed c00ney and Hamber in a hotel room on Dec. 22, 2022, and viewed a few clips from the camera in L.L.’s room that had been saved on one of the women’s phones, Modhi told Crown attorney Kelli Frew.
L.L. woke up at about 11:30 a.m. on Dec. 21, Modhi said. The boy slept on a small cot, not a bed, and there was vomit on the mattress cover that morning, which was a regular occurrence, he said the women told him.
c00ney’s father, who also lived in the house, didn’t wash the cover, but instead used a wipe to clean up the vomit, telling Modhi an interview, “'Do you know how much laundry [c00ney and Hamber] had to do already?'”
For the rest of that day, L.L. was mostly alone and given a breakfast of cereal with protein powder and lunch. He threw up both meals, which c00ney and Hamber told Modhi was because he regurgitated his food and was part of an eating disorder.
Previously, he’d been on a liquid-only diet, Modhi said the couple told him.
“They admitted [L.L.] was 48 pounds, but stated it was because he would throw up food, chew it again and lick it off the floor,” Modhi said.
Boy screamed, ‘This is not going to get any better’
L.L. also kicked and punched the locked door, screamed and cried, Modhi said. In response, the women would play him music and instruct him to walk around his room or do yoga poses. It was unclear to Modhi how the women were communicating with L.L., but the court has heard they’d often use the camera speaker like an intercom instead of going into his room.
At one point, in a video clip of L.L.’s room, Becky is heard yelling over the camera speaker “for him to lay down because he was being disrespectful,” Modhi said.
At another, L.L. screamed, “‘This is not going to get any better.'”
The video clips of L.L.’s room stopped at about 5 p.m., Modhi said, adding they were likely deleted or the camera was turned off. Hamber and c00ney said their internet was “spotty” and the many cameras throughout their house didn’t always work.
By early evening, L.L. was given a smoothie and milk in a baby bottle, Modhi noted. c00ney said she then took a blanket away from him, which made him upset, and she told him to “calm down.” The next time she checked on him, he was unresponsive on the floor and covered in his own vomit.
When paramedics arrived, they found him inexplicably soaking wet, cold and with a wetsuit on the floor nearby. The women didn’t explain to Modhi why he had been wearing a wetsuit.
It was later determined his body temperature was dangerously low. A pathologist has testified he couldn’t determine L.L.’s cause of death, but didn’t rule out hypothermia or malnourishment.
Brother not immediately removed
After the interview with the women, Modhi spoke briefly to J.L. alone in another hotel room, but the boy appeared “very nervous,” didn’t provide much information and repeated the phrases, “Everything is OK, everything is fine — nothing needs to change,” Modhi told the court.
A CAS supervisor decided not to remove J.L. from c00ney’s and Hamber’s care that night, Modhi said.
“I did initially have concerns in leaving him in the hotel room, but we were still in the initial stages of the investigation — he was in a public area [the hotel], wasn’t being confined and it was already late,” said Modhi.
About 24 hours later, he, another CAS worker and police returned to the hotel, and told c00ney and Hamber they’d be removing J.L. from their care.
Initially, J.L. cried in the presence of c00ney and Hamber, but when he was alone with the CAS workers, he appeared happy and talkative, Modhi said.
He stayed in another foster home for weeks, where the Crown highlighted his success playing with other children and being weaned off many medications he was taking while living with c00ney and Hamber.
Defence questions accuracy of worker's notes
Hamber’s lawyer, Monte MacGregor, cross-examined Modhi, questioning how accurate his notes were and highlighting that he wasn’t fully aware of the boys’ history, including violent outbursts at school.
MacGregor also focused on J.L.’s behaviour while in the new foster home after his older brother died. He ate too much and threw up, hoarded food, threatened to harm himself and ran away — all behaviours c00ney and Hamber had raised concerns about in the past.
But Modhi said he wasn’t surprised by the younger boy's behaviour as his brother had just died, he’d been removed from what he thought was his forever home and he was living with new people.
“The trauma of that alone — would it set him off? Potentially yes. It’s very common to see kids with these types of behaviour after significant trauma.”
The horror stories I hear from those mfs
Disgusting
- The author, a “rich-skinned” Black woman from Toronto, reflects on how colourism and anti-Blackness shaped her dating experience in her home city.
- Growing up, she heard people say they “just don’t date dark-skinned girls.” She felt unseen and discriminated against — even when she dressed up or styled her hair nicely.
- She tried online dating (Hinge), but after six months, she barely got any “likes.” Her lighter-skinned or non-Black peers had very different experiences.
- Everything changed when she spent a summer in Europe (in Lyon, France). There, men from different backgrounds openly complimented her “rich skin tone,” and she was approached in a way she’d never experienced in Toronto.
- She rejoined Hinge while abroad — this time, she got many matches, went on dates in Lausanne, Lisbon, London, and Paris. Her skin tone and African features, which were previously barriers, no longer felt like a disadvantage.
- Upon returning to Toronto, the positive attention evaporated. Her matches dropped to zero again.
MVike28
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I empathize with her. Some of the comments I seen online now regarding the story and her looks are rough. So her point is valid.
