The Christmas Day murders of Chloe and Aubrey Berry rocked Oak Bay to the core.
Six-year-old Chloe and four-year-old Aubrey were found dead in their father’s home last Christmas. Andrew Berry, the father of the two young girls, is facing two counts of second-degree murder.
The girls’ death affected many people and their mother, Sarah Cotton, wanted to find a positive way for people to remember the girls. She is asking people sing “This Little Light of Mine,” the girls’ favourite song, on Christmas Day or anytime over the holidays.
“We taught it to all our students and they all sang it last night at our Christmas concert and yesterday morning at our matinees,” Stuart Hall, head of the Christ Church Cathedral School where Chloe was a student, said.
“It’s going to be hard forever. Grieving like this just doesn’t end. You just have to keep revisiting it and dealing with it and that’s what we’re doing.”
The school also installed a stained glass window with two butterflies, which symbolizes the girls, earlier in the fall. The school said the tribute was another step in the grieving process.
Chloe Berry, 6, (left) and Aubrey Berry, 4, in an undated photo (File/Handout). Andrew Berry, the girls’ father, is charged with two counts of second-degree murder in their deaths in Oak Bay.
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