The daughter of Sommer Boudreau says she forgives the man who took her mother’s life just over a year ago and hopes he will get the help he needs.
“I forgive you Adam, but not for you, for me. I am not going to let you take anything further from my life,” Tia Boudreau said in an emotional victim impact statement last Friday.
“I hope that you do take all the help that you are given and you do better.”
Boudreau delivered her statement late Friday afternoon as the trial of Adam Rossi was wrapping up.
Rossi, now 42, was charged with second degree murder and “indignity to a body” following a police investigation into the death of 39-year-old Sommer Boudreau in early December 2022.
Police were originally called to a home on Rutherford Avenue shortly after 8:30 pm December 11 last year to conduct a “well-being check.”
Both Crown Attorney James Bocking and Superior Court Justice Ian Carter accepted the opinion of expert witness Dr Neil de Laplante on Friday that Rossi was “not criminally responsible” (NCR) for his actions, under section 16 of the Criminal Code of Canada.
Dr de Laplante, a forensic psychiatrist with the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, told court that Rossi was experiencing an epsiode of “mania with pyschosis” on December 10, 2022 when he took Sommer’s life…
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