The Economic Times

Ontario couple, who took in foster child then assaulted and starved him to death after locking him in a basement bedroom, learn fate

A Canadian couple, Becky Hamber and Brandy Cooney, have been sentenced to life in prison for the first-degree murder of a 12-year-old foster child. Convicted of murder, confinement, and assault, the pair also faced charges for abusing the boy's younger brother. Testimony revealed the children were locked in their rooms, restrained, and monitored.