Therapist tells Ontario women's murder trial she never recommended consistent pureeing of food

A child and family therapist said she suggested serving smoothies and possibly bottle feeding as ways to help two boys deal with trauma, but she never recommended their prospective adoptive parents consistently puree the boys’ food.

The question of what and how much Brandy Cooney and Becky Hamber fed two Indigenous brothers in their care has been a key question in their first-degree murder trial.

The brothers are referred to as L.L. and J.L. for CBC's coverage of this trial since their identities are protected under a standard publication ban. L.L. was 12 when he died in Hamber and Cooney’s care on Dec. 21, 2022.

The Burlington, Ont., women have pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in L.L.'s death at the trial that began in mid-September in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in