Police have provided more information about a couple facing serious charges in connection with the death of a child in 2020.
Brian William Harold Chciuk, 33, and Keisha Mari McCrea, 29, are each facing one count of failure to perform legal duty to provide necessities. .
According to court documents, the two are accused of failing to provide the necessities of life to a person under 16 in Lumby between December of 2019 and April of 2020.
The boy, identified as E.B. in court documents, subsequently died.
In a news release Tuesday afternoon, RCMP Cpl. James Grandy said Mounties were called to assist paramedics at a home in Lumby on April 4, 2020, for a child in distress.
“The child was flown by B.C. air ambulance to Kelowna that evening and pronounced deceased during the early-morning hours of Sunday, April 5,” Grandy said.
According to Grandy, major-crime detectives investigated the case, which led to last week’s charges.
Both accused are due back in court on Jan. 4 in Vernon
