{"id":630927,"date":"2026-04-27T01:32:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T01:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630927\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T01:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T01:32:19","slug":"mistrial-for-mother-accused-of-murdering-infant-ex-partner-guilty-of-2nd-degree-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630927\/","title":{"rendered":"Mistrial for mother accused of murdering infant, ex-partner guilty of 2nd-degree murder"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A jury has declared a mistrial in the case of a mother accused of killing her seven-week-old son in Ottawa in 2021 but has found her partner at the time guilty of second-degree murder.<\/p>\n

Boravy Buth and Patrick O’Connor were on trial for second-degree murder in the death of\u00a0the infant, whom CBC is not identifying.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Buth was also charged with criminal negligence causing death, but a mistrial was declared on both of those charges early Sunday evening.<\/p>\n

O’Connor was found guilty of the lone charge against him.<\/p>\n

During the trial<\/a>, a forensic pathologist likened the boy’s injuries to something seen after a vehicle collision or a fall from a significant height.<\/p>\n

The two defence lawyers attempted to pin the guilt for the child\u2019s death on each other\u2019s clients during their closing statements<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":{"0":"post-630927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ottawa","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-ottawa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630927","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=630927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}