Lachine man acquitted in daughter's death

A jury that had been deliberating for four days at the Montreal courthouse acquitted a Lachine man in a case dating back five years in which he was charged with murdering his young daughter. 
On Saturday morning, Kirk Ainsworth Howell, 41, was acquitted of the second-degree murder charge he had contested since 2012. Howell had always maintained his six-year-old daughter, Myriam Jean-Baptiste, died as a result of having fallen out of a bunk bed. Her condition worsened in the hours that follo