Mom who was wrongly jailed over her daughter's death claims cops used string of terrifying tactics to frame her

A Toronto parent who was acquitted of murdering her disabled teenage daughter, has launched a staggering $10 cardinal suit against the constabulary who pursued her for 13 agelong years.

Cindy Ali, on with her husband, Allan, filed the bombshell assertion 8 months aft her affectional acquittal successful the decease of their 16-year-old daughter, Cynara, arsenic reported by the Toronto Star.

The suit alleged that Toronto constabulary were 'determined to convict' her during their relentless year-long investigation.

The incidental occurred connected February 19, 2011, erstwhile Ali made a frantic 911 telephone claiming 2 masked men had invaded her Scarborough townhouse.

When archetypal responders arrived, they recovered Cynara, who suffered from cerebral palsy, 'without captious signs'.

But what followed was a nightmare that would pb Ali to beryllium convicted of first-degree murder. 

She was sentenced to beingness successful situation - earlier yet acquitted successful a melodramatic retrial that near adjacent the justice uncertain astir 'the information of the matter'.

Detective Frank Skubic has been accused of refusing to judge Ali's communicative of a location invasion, and alternatively rapidly processing a mentation that she 'fabricated the location penetration communicative to screen up her engagement successful Cynara's death,' per The Star.

However, Ali claims successful her suit that the consequent probe into the penetration was botched by authorities. 

'The probe into the location penetration was conducted to discredit its occurrence,' the filing alleges. 'Officers took small attraction to unafraid the country successful the hours pursuing the event, and the forensic squad neglected to instrumentality fingerprint oregon DNA samples from respective surfaces that Cindy said the location invaders touched.' 

The suit claimed constabulary whitethorn person planted a mysterious missive successful the Ali family's mailbox, purportedly from the 'home invaders' claiming they 'got the incorrect house'.

'The Plaintiffs suspect, successful airy of consequent events, that it was concocted and planted by (Toronto police) astatine Skubic's direction,' the suit claimed.

Additionally, undercover officers allegedly acceptable up a fake contention astatine a buying mall, offering Ali's different girl a travel to Niagara Falls - each to summation concealed entree to the family's location and works surveillance devices.

'None of the months' worthy of surveillance, telephone intercepts, oregon in-home probes were produced arsenic grounds against Cindy astatine her 2023 retrial,' the filing claims was the effect of the invasive probe. 

The suit named the City of Toronto, the Toronto Police Services Board, erstwhile homicide detective Frank Skubic and Toronto Fire skipper Semahj Bujokas arsenic defendants, according to the outlet.

Toronto Fire skipper Semahj Bujokas was besides accused of kicking Ali astatine the country and displaying 'aggressive behavior' that shocked different archetypal responders.

'There are nary footprints, don't bulls*** me,' the firefighter said.

The investigation, dubbed 'Project Litoria,' progressive intercepting communications of much than 20 people, tracking the family's movements and adjacent referencing the infamous lawsuit of Robert Latimer, a Saskatchewan husbandman convicted of sidesplitting his disabled girl successful 1993.

But the concern didn't extremity with Ali's arrest. 

She spent 4 years down bars, during which she claims to person attempted termination twice.

It wasn't until 2021 that her condemnation was quashed connected appeal, starring to the retrial that yet saw her acquitted successful January 2024.

The suit seeks a whopping $8 cardinal from Skubic and the Toronto Police Services Board for negligent probe and mendacious imprisonment.

The filing besides demands an further $2 cardinal from the City of Toronto and Bujokas for a litany of alleged misdeeds including artillery and maltreatment of power.