A month before a child in Brandy Cooney and Becky Hamber’s care died, the couple texted about him falling, acting drunk and having unfocused eyes. They questioned whether he should go to a hospital and whether he might be “dying,” then agreed they should try to warm him up.

According to Sgt. Julie Powers, the Halton Regional Police officer who investigated the couple prior to their arrests in 2024, there are no records to indicate they took the boy for treatment or called for help.

“Unfortunately my thoughts [are] he is suddenly going to die and im going to jail,” Cooney texted her wife on Nov. 20, 2022, the trial heard.

“Well if it comes down to it Ill go to jail not u.”

The Burlington, Ont., women have pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder of the boy at the trial which began in

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