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A Canadian diplomat in a nightmare in Miami spent nearly every cent she had, took out multiple loans and sold her Ottawa house to finance a legal bid to bring her teenage son home after felony murder charges.

Roxanne Dubé’s life changed in March 2015.

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It was a crime — and punishment — that shook two cities and thrust Dubé and her family into the spotlight.

Just weeks after her two sons settled into a new life in Miami to join Dubé at her posting as consul general, the teens’ names and faces were splashed across newspapers and television screens. One was dead, the other in jail.

Dubé’s first-born was one of two teenagers fatally shot after a botched drug robbery. Her surviving son was jailed and charged with murder for being a party to the crime that took his brother’s life, even though he fired no gun.

What followed was an 18-month legal saga that cost Dubé er life savings to free her surviving son.

Now, a recent spousal support decision provides a glimpse into the financial crisis that left Dubé more than $125,000 in debt and how she and her since freed son are doing after the ordeal of a lifetime.