{"id":874058,"date":"2026-08-28T03:10:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T03:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/874058\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T03:10:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T03:10:47","slug":"edmonton-father-convicted-of-manslaughter-in-killing-of-his-5-week-old-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/874058\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton father convicted of manslaughter in killing of his 5-week-old son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Edmonton father charged with second-degree murder for killing his own baby three years ago was found guilty of the lesser charge of manslaughter on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>An Alberta court justice found George Russell Hulleman not guilty of the original charge because a psychological evaluation found him to be significantly cognitively impaired. <\/p>\n<p>Hulleman fatally injured his five-week-old son Leviathan Puchalski at his home in west Edmonton in February 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The infant was rushed to the Stollery Children\u2019s Hospital intensive care unit where he died three days later.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy found the baby died of abusive head trauma and determined the manner of death was homicide.<\/p>\n<p>The judge said despite Hulleman downplaying to police what he did to his boy, and the fact the baby\u2019s injuries were caused by \u201cextreme\u201d force to his head, spine and limbs, the judge was still left with a doubt because of the psychological testing.<\/p>\n<p>A doctor found Hulleman\u2019s intelligence is lower than at least 90 per cent of people and that he may be unable to predict the consequences of his actions under stress.<\/p>\n<p>Exactly how he hurt his baby was not proven.<\/p>\n<p>Sentencing for Hulleman is set for next month.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Edmonton as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=edmonton.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778178555_824_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Edmonton father charged with second-degree murder for killing his own baby three years ago was found guilty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-874058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874058","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=874058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}