After a previous conviction was overturned on appeal, an Ontario judge acquitted Cindy Ali more than a decade after the death of her daughter, who had cerebral palsy.
Cries of relief rang out in a downtown courtroom on Friday as a Toronto mother formerly sentenced to life in connection with the death of her disabled teenage daughter was acquitted of first-degree murder.
The prosecutor seeking to convict Toronto mother Cindy Ali in the 2011 death of her disabled teenage daughter said during final arguments Monday that the murder was carried out as an act of mercy to relieve the girl from suffering – a theory the defense said was “plucked from thin air” and based on stereotypes.
The second trial of a Toronto mom accused of murdering her severely disabled daughter is hinging on the same Crown theory: that Cindy Ali killed her daughter Cynara, and then
Taking the stand for a second time in her life, Amanda Ali rejected prosecutor’s suggestions that her mother smothered her disabled teenage sister in an act of mercy at their Scarborough townhouse in 2011, instead detailing a childhood and home life filled with love.