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A man who killed an Indigenous mother of three in the Ottawa Valley a year ago has been found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder. In court, both the Crown and defence stood up to say that the case reflects how Ontario's mental health system is broken.
The man accused of murdering Sommer Boudreau in the Ottawa Valley had brushes with police amid mental health issues for years, and his ex-wife and sister think more could have been done. But experts say that’s tough to achieve in situations like this, with health care and criminal justice operating as they do today.