‘A vile and evil crime:’ Alberta woman sentenced for drugging, killing daughter
CALGARY — The father of a nine-year-old girl drugged and killed by her mother says no prison sentence will do his daughter justice.
“I will never get to watch my daughter grow up, but I know she would have done great in life,” Duane Lucius said Friday as he clutched a photo of his daughter Amber.
“I have had to bury my child and nothing will bring her back. I can only hope that other children are not being used as bargaining chips in a divorce or used to hurt the other parent.”
His former wife, Laura Coward, was sentenced Friday to life in prison with no chance of parole for 18 years after pleading guilty in a Calgary courtroom last month to second-degree murder.