He stole our innocent child: Families of fatal Quebec daycare crash relate heavy toll – Montreal [Video]

The mother of a four-year-old boy killed when a city bus plowed into a Montreal-area daycare in 2023 told a courtroom on Thursday how angry she is at the accused for “breaking” her family.

“He stole our innocent child who only wanted to play with his friends and his sister,” said Marie-Christine Cloutier about the man on trial for killing her son Jacob and a five-year-old girl, and injuring six other children on Feb. 8, 2023.

Cloutier and other members of families affected by the attack read victim-impact statements in a courtroom in Montreal’s northern suburb of Laval, Que., days after a Superior Court judge found the accused — fifty-three-year-old former city bus driver Pierre Ny St-Amand — not criminally responsible for what he did.

“I am so angry with him for dragging us into this whirlwind we didn’t choose, for breaking us,” Cloutier told the courtroom through a video …