Video: Murder trial begins for Shakeil Boothe’s father, stepmom

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Posted February 3, 2014 7:59 pm.

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Crown lawyers say physical abuse, malnutrition and infection killed a 10-year-old boy who died in the care of his father and stepmother.

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