‘He was doomed:’ Crown says diabetic teen was trapped, parents guilty of murder
CALGARY — The Crown says a Calgary teen who died of starvation and untreated diabetes was doomed and trapped by the “two people with the power to save him.”
“What little life he was allowed in the end was marked by pain, by sickness and by a profound loneliness that must come from knowing the world is not for you,” Crown prosecutor Susan Pepper said Thursday at the first-degree murder trial of the teen’s parents.
Emil Radita, 59, and his 54-year-old wife, Rodica, have pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the 2013 death of 15-year-old Alexandru. The teen, who was one of eight children, weighed just 37 pounds when he died.
“The Crown respectfully submits that it has proven all of the elements of first-degree murder in this case beyond a reasonable doubt,” said Pepper in final arguments.