“She’s dead,” the 5-year-old boy said in a small voice to a policeman who questioned him about his sister, now known as “the girl from Granby”, the same day she was found unconscious. At her place.
The 14 jurors in the criminal trial of his mother-in-law, accused of the kidnapping and murder of the 7-year-old girl, listened to the video of this police interrogation on Wednesday afternoon, recorded on April 29, 2019. The sound had been heard. deleted for some extracts.
Jurors saw the boy in a small room at the Granby police station, seated on one of the two armchairs, answering the investigator’s questions. He had brought a dog trained for this kind of exercise, intended to reassure and calm the child.
The toddler, who cannot be identified, listened attentively to the police officer’s instructions while flattering the black Labrador.
Asked about his family members, he listed them, omitting his sister.
The policeman returned to the charge, asking him who was living with him. He then added his sister to the household, specifying:
“But she didn’t listen to the instructions and had big fits. She is dead “.
He said that that morning his sister was no longer “speaking” and that the police and paramedics arrived “to wake her up, to heal her, to make her alive,” he said of his little childish voice.
He also confirmed parts of the testimony of the accused’s son, given the day before at the Trois-Rivières courthouse, where the trial is taking place. The latter, a teenager now aged 16, said the girl was “mummified” with duct tape.
The toddler also told the police that his sister had been wrapped in sticky paper: “There were plenty”. Asked to clarify, he described that there was some on his legs, stomach, feet, back, hand, and on his head.
It was not the first time that scotch tape had been used to restrain the girl, according to the child.
“I loved him very, very much, my sister.”
Unlike the accused’s son, the child, who is now 7 years old, was not questioned during the trial. Only the video recorded by the police on April 29, 2019 was shown to the jury.
Publication bans prevent journalists from reporting whole or parts of testimony. The identity of some of the people involved in this drama cannot be disclosed either, including the name of the 38-year-old accused.