CALGARY— It is the most ghastly video, the one of Alex Radita’s 15th birthday party. In the witness stand Tuesday, one of Alex’s sisters stood in a hooded sweatshirt, watching the video on a screen. Alex died of a raging bacterial infection secondary to his malnutrition and untreated and mismanaged Type 1 diabetes. Similarly, she said, as Alex grew more ill in the last five months of his life, the parents didn’t take him for medical help. After much hemming and hawing, the defence lawyers finally told Judge Horner Tuesday the girl would be their only witness.

Source: National Post September 13, 2016 23:53 UTC