{"id":407093,"date":"2026-01-13T20:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/407093\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T20:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:19:07","slug":"prospective-mom-accused-of-killing-boy-torturing-brother-testifies-about-damage-to-childrens-bedrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/407093\/","title":{"rendered":"Prospective mom accused of killing boy, torturing brother testifies about damage to children&#8217;s bedrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The extent of the damage the boys caused to the couple\u2019s home has been debated throughout the trial.<\/p>\n<p>The defence has alluded to tens of thousands of dollars in damages, and the women conveyed the same to children\u2019s aid, including that the boys would purposefully defecate and urinate on their furniture.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But when Cooney testified in December, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/hamilton\/cooney-hamber-trial-9.7010229\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Conlan asked<\/a> to what extent the children damaged the home and she gave few examples.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She mentioned L.L. damaging a closet door, the screen door being dented and freezer door no longer sealing.<\/p>\n<p>She repeatedly said the boys would damage toys, and get rips and holes in their clothing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs there anything else?\u201d asked the judge. \u201cThere is other evidence [in this trial] that led me to think there was complete destruction of the house, annihilation, worth thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She could only point to a coat rack that J.L. had \u201cripped\u201d off the wall.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The extent of the damage the boys caused to the couple\u2019s home has been debated throughout the trial.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-407093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}