Mother Of Deceased Boy Takes The Stand
Wednesday, December 01, 2010 at 18:35
The mother of a toddler who died in Prince Albert three years ago testified in court Wednesday.
Jennine Donald told jurors December 23rd, 2007 started out as a normal day for her family.
She said her three-year-old son, Dilyn, and his baby sister woke up between 9:00 and 10:00 a.m. and were soon eating breakfast.
Donald said, later on, Dilyn developed diarrhea and wouldn’t eat his spaghetti.
She testified he was sitting in his high chair when she left for an hour around suppertime.
Donald said she originally told police she went out to see friends, but said she was really working as a prostitute in the city’s downtown area.
She also said when she got back, she noticed an ambulance outside her house.
Donald told court that a rescue worker came up to her saying her son wasn’t breathing and she would have to come to the hospital with them.
Donald also testified that her mother had come over earlier in the day to take Dilyn for a visit.
The boy’s stepfather is accused of killing the youngster.
Thirty-one-year-old Jordan Crowe faces a charge of second-degree murder.
An ambulance worker also took the stand.
Ramsay Bellisle was one of the EMTs on duty the night the incident happened.
He said it was around 9:30 p.m. they got a call of an unresponsive child in a West Flat home.
Bellisle said it took his unit just three minutes to get to the house — but they found the door locked, so they had to radio dispatch to tell the person inside to open it up.
When the door was opened, Bellisle said Crowe frantically began pleading with him to help his boy.
Bellisle said the boy was lying unresponsive on his back beside a telephone, and was not breathing.
According to Bellisle, the father told him his son was banging on the wall — and when he went to check on him, he found him gasping for air.
The Crown asked Bellisle if he noticed anything peculiar about the boy’s condition.
Bellisle said he had a lot of foam in his mouth and that his body seemed cool — much cooler than someone who was supposed to have been kicking minutes earlier.