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Things Need To be Changed Now!!!
CCAS link in several deaths
By VIVIAN SONG, TORONTO SUN
The death of Jeffrey Baldwin isn't the only high-profile case that has involved the Catholic Children's Aid Society.
- The CCAS placed foster children in the care of Paul Blackwell, 64, who last month admitted to sexually abusing two wards
of the CCAS between 1977 and 1992.
- In 1997, Jordan Heikamp, 5 weeks old, was left to starve to death. Heikamp slowly wasted away to skin and bones in a women's
shelter while under the CCAS's watch, and died at 4 pounds, 2 ounces -- 4 ounces less than his birth weight.
- Afua Boateng, 4, was killed by her schizophrenic mother the day after a neighbour pleaded with CCAS to remove the child.
Rosina Boateng was found not criminally responsible for the 1995 death because of her mental disorder.
47 INJURIES
Afua suffered 47 injuries, which drained all the blood from her heart and killed her. The mother -- who believed her child
was possessed by the devil -- cut her daughter's wrists and put hot pepper in the child's eyes.
Agency workers decided Afua showed no signs of any type of violence or injury.
- In 1994, Sara Podniewicz, 6 months old, was killed by her crack-addicted mother Lisa Olsen, who, six years earlier, had
pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and endangering the life of her 10-week-old son Mikey in 1988. Sara suffered 24 broken
bones, including 16 ribs, which led to fatal pneumonia. The CCAS had the legal responsibility to protect her. Olsen, and Sara's
father Michael Podniewicz were found guilty of murdering the infant.
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Testimony about child being sexually and physically abused by CAS
The Horrid Truth
Fri, 24 Mar 2006
Dear Members of the Ontario Legislature
Attached, please find an affidavit in pdf format involving the flagrant physical and sexual abuse of a young boy by CAS workers
in Toronto and the subsequent cover-up by CAS workers and the Ontario Children’s Lawyer’s Office. This child has
testified on videotape that he was threatened, coerced drugged and forcefully confined by the Toronto Jewish Children’s
Aid Society and that this was covered up by his lawyer with Ontario’s Children’s Lawyer.
Yet, despite the cries for help by this child to those agencies responsible, the agency which the boy claimed was threatening
and abusing him, were allowed to take him away and lock him up so that his friends and family could never see him again and
to this date have never seen or heard of him again. Before being taken away, the boy testified on videotape that he was being
threatened and coerced by his lawyer from the Ontario Children’s Lawyer’s Office and being denied his right to
have someone sit with him at meetings. The Children’s Lawyer did not allow the boy to have any witnesses so that the
Lawyer could threaten the boy without there being anyone present to witness the abuse of the boy. All of this paid for by
the Province of Ontario taxpayers.
We hear of children being kidnapped and tortured in other countries and think that this sort of thing only happens in other
countries. But in reality it is happening right here in Ontario and the Government of Ontario is funding this blatant abuse
of children through children’s aid agencies and through Ontario’s Office of the Children’s Lawyer.
Recent attempts by CAS agencies and certain persons having influence over the Minister’s office to keep the Ombudsman
from overseeing the CAS was for good reason – to keep the public and the elected representatives of the people of Ontario
at Queen’s Park from finding out what is really going on behind the closed doors of the various CAS agencies.
It time for the elected officials of Ontario to wake up and to make sure that they don’t get the wool pulled over their
eyes by the CAS and those who hold influence with the Minister. Its time to at least give kids half a chance by ensuring that
the Ombudsman of Ontario, Andre Marin, is given the mandate to oversee the operation of Ontario’s CAS agencies.
Copies of videotapes of this boy’s testimony are available and other documentary evidence to show how the CAS have abused
this child and then covered up their tracks so that the elected representatives within the Ontario Legislature would not know
what is going on. If any elected Member of the Legislature wishes to view the tapes, then please contact Canada Court Watch
at info@canadacourtwatch.com. Representatives from Court Watch are also willing to meet to discuss the problems with children
being sexually, physically and emotionally abused by CAS agencies and their workers.
Additional information about abuse of children and families by CAS agencies is also available on our website at;
http://canadacourtwatch.com/
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