This tortuous cross-examination is just another cruel chapter in the endlessly difficult childhood of this poor, 13-year-old boy.

Apprehended as a baby from his birth mother, shunted through foster parents, he and his older brother landed in 2017 at the Burlington home of Becky Hamber and Brandy Cooney .

It was a home described as a house of horrors.

Five years later, his brother was dead, allegedly at the hands of his foster moms now on trial by judge alone in Milton for first-degree murder and failure to provide the necessities of life. And he is here to testify against them.

T he married couple has pleaded not guilty to the 12-year-old’s death.

The emaciated victim, the size of a child half his age, was suffering from hypothermia when first responders found him unresponsive in t

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