They have been in a relationship since meeting in the same class in school at 14, and are parents to four daughters. Crown prosecutor Alysha McClintock asked how long they have been together. “This will be nine years this year,” she said.
They had lived together in a three-bedroom home in Vandeleur Ave, in Birkdale.
Asked in court if he was “an active, hands-on Dad” to their girls, she said, “Very much so.”
She said they were “keen” to adopt Chance, and bring him into their family. Asked how Boston Wilson treated Chance, she said, “Very much like his own child.”
But in cross-examination, she confirmed she had made no mention of adoption when she gave her statement to the police. And her sister, Chance’s mother Azure Nielson, said in court on Tuesday that she was unaware of any plan to adopt her baby. “Not at all,” she said.
Chance and his mother shared the home in Birkdale with Boston Wilson, his partner, and their four preschool children.
Texts exchanged between Darien Aipolani and her sister after Chance was taken to hospital were read out in courtroom 13.
“Sis, boy is dying he has blood in his brain which means a cracked skull,” texted Azure Nielson.
Aipolani replied, “Me and bos [Boston Wilson] are going crazy because we know we didn’t do anything wrong… Honestly sis nothing had happened.”
Wilson had told her that he heard the baby cough, went into Chance’s bedroom to check on him, and found him white and unresponsive.
She told the court she was returning home with her father from having coffee when Wilson phoned her and said Chance had stopped breathing. He asked her to call an ambulance. When they got to the home in Birkdale, she said Wilson was giving Chance CPR.
“I saw Chance gasp for breath and I took over at that point,” she said.
The trial judge is Justice Christine Gordon. Five medical experts are yet to be called by the Crown, including a radiologist who scanned Chance’s brain, and a brain pathologist who will be asked about the likely force that caused Chance’s injuries.
