Back in 2015, the birth of Chloe Guan branch was
a sensation.
It happened during an Air Canada flight to Tokyo,
somewhere over Russia. Her mother,
Adaguan, had no idea she was pregnant,
and Chloe arrived of all days,
on Mother's Day right to feel something,
wanting to come out. So that's probably the the moment
I knew.
Just three months later, baby Chloe was taken from her
parents.
The Children's Aid Society was concerned about the couple fighting.
Chloe wasn't returned to her mother until three years later.
In 2019, they moved to Ottawa to be with Guan's
new boyfriend,
Justin Cassie Barube, and in May of 2020,
Chloe was found dead in her room in a soiled
bed.
It was two months into the Pandemic.
Her bladder had been ruptured a week earlier,
slowly poisoning her. She had vomiting and diarrhea,
couldn't walk, and close to the end she was passing
out.
But there was no visit to a hospital,
just online searches about the symptoms.
In March, a Superior Court judge found Cassie Barube guilty
of causing her death.
He'd been hitting Chloe, and in an interview with police,
he admitted he didn't want to take her to hospital
because her bruises would have raised questions.
If I'm the monster that hurt a little girl,
I need to be helped because I'm guess I'm the
one that caused everything that's happening right now,
Guan testified. She didn't press him about going to hospital
because she didn't want to make him angry.
Cassie Barube had been drinking heavily at the time.
His lawyer has asked for a mental health assessment.
The judge will hear sentencing arguments for Cassie Barube on
Friday.
He faces up to life in prison.
His defense lawyer says she and her client have no
comment at this time.
Christy niece, CBC News Ottawa.