A woman from Montreal’s south shore has been found guilty on all charges in the 2022 deaths of her wife and their two young children.
The jury rendered a verdict Monday at the Longueuil, Que., courthouse in the triple murder trial of 38-year-old Levana Ballouz. She was facing life in prison without parole for at least 25 years.
The accused was charged with the second-degree murder of her spouse Synthia Bussières, 38, and with the first-degree murders of their two sons, five-year-old Eliam and two-year-old Zac.
Ballouz, who was a man at the time of the crime but now identifies as a woman, was arrested in Brossard in September 2022.
Quebec’s Crown prosecutors’ office alleged Ballouz stabbed her wife more than 20 times and suffocated their two sons before trying to kill herself.
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Ballouz waived her right to a lawyer and chose to defend herself throughout the proceedings She alleged …