Injuries on boy, 11, ‘like a concentration camp movie’: Ottawa cop
It was only in the brightly lit ambulance that Const. Cindy Cybulski could truly see the trauma wrought upon the frail body of an 11-year-old boy.
“It was like a concentration camp movie,” she told a court Wednesday. “His chest was just bones. You could see every rib.”
Cybulski, a veteran Ottawa police officer, seemed shaken as she catalogued the boy’s injuries.
His arms and wrists had “scabs upon scabs,” she said — fresh, raw wounds atop older, healing gouges. His ankles were no better.
How did this happen, she’d asked the boy.
“From the chains,” he told her. She gave the answer before defence lawyer Robert Carew could object to the hearsay evidence.
Cybulski took the stand at the child-abuse trial of a 44-year-old RCMP counter-terrorism officer and his 36-year-old wife, who are accused of keeping the boy shackled in their Kanata home.
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