Matthew Brush pleads guilty to 2nd degree murder of Cassandra Kaake

Matthew Brush pleaded guilty to second-degree murder of Cassandra Kaakein court Monday afternoon.

Brush also pleaded guilty to arsoncharges.

Kaake was found dead at the sceneof a house fire on Benjamin Avenue on Dec. 11, 2014. Police determinedthe fire was intentionally set.

The 31-year-old was seven months pregnant.

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A postmortem examination found that Kaake died of blood loss caused by severe trauma.

In February last year, Windsor police arrested Brush, 27, of LaSalle.

Jeff Durham was the father-to-be. He's been fighting to change the lawso people like Brush would face additional charges for killing a woman who is pregnant.

"I feel like the charges have betrayed the reality since the beginning," said Durham leaving the courthouse Monday. "Iknow that the crown is doing the best that they can with the tools that they have but they don't have tools to charge for...what it is, so it's upsetting, it continues to be upsetting, profoundly upsetting, and any relief that should be available to us at this stage, it's really not a relief because it continues to be pretty hard."

Brush's sentencing hearing is scheduled to begin January 23 and is expected to lastfive to seven days.