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A forensic pathologist has testified the autopsy he performed on a 12-year-old who was in the care of two Burlington, Ont., women was unable to determine the boy’s cause of death.
However, Dr. Michael Pickup said he could also not rule out possible causes of death, including hypothermia, or cardiac arrest linked to severe malnourishment.
Pickup, Ontario’s deputy chief forensic pathologist, testified Tuesday and Wednesday at the trial for Brandy Cooney and Becky Hamber, who’ve pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder of the boy and other counts.
The two were in the process of adopting the 12-year-old, known in court as L.L., when he died in 2022. The identities of L.L.
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