A 41-year-old man who was the subject of an Amber Alert involving his six-year-old boy has been charged in the slaying of the child’s mother, Véronique Barbe.
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Ugo Fredette was charged Monday with second-degree murder at the courthouse in Saint-Jérôme, Que., just north of Montreal.
The suspect remains in hospital in Ottawa, putting plans to transfer him into Quebec provincial police custody on hold.
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The boy vanished from Saint-Eustache, northwest of Montreal, last Thursday and he and his father were stopped by police in eastern Ontario nearly 24 hours later.
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Police issued an Amber Alert after the boy’s mother, also 41, was found dead inside a Saint-Eustache home the same day the youngster went missing.
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