A child and family therapist tried to help two moms deal with two difficult Indigenous foster children who’d survived years of early trauma – but her advice never included dressing them in onesie pyjamas and zip-tying them shut.

Her strategies didn’t include forcing the two boys to march up and down the stairs for 45 minutes, she said Friday. It certainly didn’t include confining them in zip-tied hockey helmets.

And she wouldn’t have advised treating the boys as toddlers.

Terra Bovingdon was testifying for the Crown at the judge-alone trial for Becky Hamber and Brandy Cooney, who have pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and failure to provide the necessities of life charges. The married couple had taken in the young brothers in 2017 and they’d been in the midst of

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