She said she loved him — now she is testifying against him.
Thirty-year-old Amanda Trevors of Regina is on the witness stand at the second-degree murder trial of her former live-in boyfriend.
Thirty-four-year-old Adam Cyr is accused of beating her two-year-old daughter to death in June of 2012.
Trevors testified about the last day she spent with her daughter, Natalia Shingoose. They went to McDonald’s for lunch with the child’s grandmother. Trevors bathed her, put her to bed for a nap then went to work at about 3 pm.
She says when she got home just before 9 pm, Cyr was sleeping in the master bedroom, her eight-year-old son was in the dining room and she quickly checked on Natalia.
She says her daughter appeared to be sleeping in her crib, but regrets never closely inspecting her. She told the trial today, “I wish I had”.
Natalia was found unresponsive the next morning. She had died of internal bleeding caused by six broken ribs that lacerated her liver and lung.
Yesterday, Cyr’s lawyer, Bob Hrycan, accused the girl’s uncle, Matthew Bennett, of being the killer.
He replied, “F___ you, I did that.”
Bennett had earlier told the trial he went into the family home at about 2 am on June 21, 2012 because he saw the front door of the house was wide open and he wanted to make sure everything was alright.
Hrycan portrayed Bennett as a violent drug addict who would do anything to feed his addiction and that he was really in the house looking for drugs.
Trevors admitted she sold cocaine in 2011 — but says she never used the drug, nor was she an addict.
The prosecution is close to wrapping up its case in the trial that began January 5.