“Constipated face”, “she lifts my heart”, “she pisses me off” … the mother-in-law of the girl from Granby had a feeling of aversion towards the child and she did not care about his death, supported the Crown attorney, Mr.e Jean-Sébastien Bussières, during his pleadings. The lawyer read, Tuesday morning, twenty texts that the accused wrote about the victim, between November 13, 2018 and April 29, 2019, the day of the tragedy.
These texts, often punctuated with coronations, had been given to the jury in a bundle of documents, but they had never been read aloud during the trial of the woman who is accused of premeditated murder and forcible confinement.
“Ask yourself if you believe [l’accusée] when she tells you she wanted to protect [la victime] adding duct tape on the morning of the 29th, asked Mr.e Bussières to the 14 jurors. Then ask yourself if the actions of April 29 are not rather part of the continuum of animosity that has lived in it for so long as we have just read. Ask yourself if his testimony is not sewn with white thread. ”
During her testimony, the mother-in-law admitted to adding a dozen turns of duct tape around the girl who was already tied in sticky paper on the morning of April 29. She denied covering her nose and mouth. The 38-year-old wanted to prevent the child from injuring herself with a piece of furniture while waiting for a child psychiatry appointment, scheduled for the same afternoon, she said.
Instead, the Crown prosecutor argued that the mother-in-law was “exasperated” by the girl who was screaming and trying to “regain her freedom”. “To immobilize it completely, [l’accusée] made sure to tie her “bin properly” by wrapping it at face level, in more than one direction, and causing her death. ”
He stressed that even if the two pathologists, one for the Crown and the other for the defense, do not come to the same conclusions as to the causes of death, the two experts agree on one point: “no” would have been duct tape on the little body of [la victime], it would still be alive and we would not be in front of you today ”, underlined Me Bussières.
Publication bans prevent us from revealing certain details of the evidence and certain names. Crown argument continues Tuesday afternoon. Jury deliberations are expected to begin thereafter, either Wednesday or Thursday. The father’s trial will take place in a few weeks.