“Rather convenient” that the accused Adèle Sorella had no memory of the day her little daughters, Amanda and Sabrina, died, and that she arranged so that there was no one at home that day- there, argued the Crown at the end of the criminal trial.
The 57-year-old woman is accused of killing her two daughters on March 31, 2009. They were found dead on the floor of the games room of the family home on March 31, 2009 — more than 14 years ago. The medical examiner was unable to determine the medical cause of the girls’ deaths, but concluded that they died by asphyxiation, after a process of excluding all other possible causes.
In pleading, the Crown maintains that she had the “exclusive opportunity” to kill her daughters that March morning. Mme Sorella had told her mother who normally looked after them that she could go home. She had to take the girls to a dentist appointment, she had given as the reason. However, there had never been an appointment for them at the dentist, argued the Crown prosecutor in charge of the case, Ms.e Marie-Claude Bourassa.
“She had free reign that morning to carry out her purpose” and there is no evidence that anyone else entered the house, she added.
The accused called her brother that day to tell him to go to her house at the end of the day, insisting not to take their mother. She arranged so that the latter did not have to see their bodies, argued the prosecutor.
Mme Sorella was later found driving her car in a ditch after crashing into a pole.
The facts support the thesis of “extended suicide”, that is to say that Adèle Sorella wanted to take her own life without leaving her little daughters behind. Mme Sorella has attempted suicide in the past, the lawyer recalled.
A “kind of mafia ceremonial” which would have wanted to take revenge on the husband of the accused, a lieutenant of the Italian mafia, as the defense claims, “that’s speculation”, launched Me Bourassa.
The Crown’s argument continues Wednesday afternoon.