I took my Power in my Hand – / And
went against the World – Emily Dickinson (Poem 660)
“THE NAZIS AND THEIR CRIMES
AGAINST HUMANITY”
Friday,
December 16, 2016
------Silence is complicit ----Mdm. Marie-Claude Landry
Chief Commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission ---Serenity was an
aboriginal child. She was being “monitored” by the care system. She was said to
be a bit “difficult.” Wouldn’t we all, if we were abused to the point of death?
That happened more than two years ago. And we’re only hearing the full story
now from a reporter, not from a government that spends $734 million a year on
child intervention.------Mark Klum When is the blame put on the person who actually
did tthese awful things to this child. There is not a social worker out there
that wants this. I know one and she is so overloaded it is ridiculous. The
person who did this should be shot. Period. The criminal has more
rights.-------Julie Ali · University of Alberta Mark Klum Mark Klum The blame
is put on the GOA because this is where the blame belongs. It is not as if we
didn't have prior cases of the problems of kinship placements in Alberta. There
is the case of another kinship placement that failed abysmally where yet
another child ended up dead. In this earlier case, J'Lyn Cardinal was placed in
a kinship placement. She was almost five years old when she died. Her fatality
report was released in 2016--she died January 13, 2009 at 8:24 a.m: https://www.justice.alberta.ca/.../fatality-report...
Medical Cause of Death: Cranial trauma with a large blood clot pressing on the
surface of the brain.
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After the death of this child it appears that the GOA increased the number of
face to face contacts required during the first three months of the kinship
placement. After this point, the judge recommended more visits -unscheduled
once per month during the six month period at the start of the kinship
placement. Serenity was placed in kinship care just before she turned 3 years
of age and died at four years. Soon after entering kinship care there was an
abuse complaint. The complaint were not substantiated and the children were
left to their fate. The GOA involvement ended soon after when private
guardianship was obtained. But a second complaint to the police when Serenity
was 4 years old (note she is called Marie in the Office of the Child and Youth
Advocate's report) resulted in a referral to Child Intervention Services (GOA).
http://www.ocya.alberta.ca/.../InvRev_4-Year-Old-Marie... Marie at 4 years old
Shortly after Marie’s fourth birthday, the police received a concern that Naomi
and Kolby were unsupervised in the community and appeared to be malnourished.
The police met with Anne and she said the children had tapeworms when they were
placed with her. Child Intervention Services was notified and the matter was
assigned to an Intake worker.21 21 There is no documentation outlining further
activity by Child Intervention Services. ***** 3 months later Serenity died.
The same errors that resulted in J'Lyn Cardinal's death are repeated in the
case of Serenity. They dumped several children with the kinship placement, the
kinship placement was not suitable and the follow up work was poor. In
Serenity's case what was the follow up from the GOA with reference to the
police report? It was only after Serenity was near death that the true state of
affairs was determined:
http://www.ocya.alberta.ca/.../InvRev_4-Year-Old-Marie... Circumstances
Surrounding Marie’s Death Three months later, four-year-old Marie was taken to
hospital with an extensive brain injury. Doctors noted bruising, at various
stages of healing, on her body and she was significantly underweight.22 Her
guardians said that Marie had fallen while playing with her siblings on a
swing. The following day, Naomi and Kolby were interviewed by child
intervention staff and police. They disclosed that Marie was often hit because
she was bad, did not listen and stole food. Naomi and Kolby were apprehended
and placed with a relative. Marie was apprehended and remained in hospital on
life support for about one week before she passed away.
************************** It appears that the GOA learns nothing from past
history of child fatalities in the child welfare system but seems to generate
paper after each child death. In response to the death of J'Lyn Cardinal the
GOA under the PCs did a review.
http://www.humanservices.alberta.ca/.../kinship-care... Kinship Care Review
Report November 2009 ***************************** In the case of the death of
Serenity we are offered an all party panel. These are all placebo remedies in
my opinon. The GOA needs to act on the recommendations of previous reports and
use common sense. We have enough information about the way forward.
Unfortunately it appears that we don't use the information we have to prevent
repeated adverse events and deaths. This begs the question why isn't the GOA
using the information we have in a preventative fashion? Even the Child and
Youth Advocate's Office is not able to uphold the rights of these children due
to the limitations of legislation governing his office. What could be done to
alter the outcomes? If we look at the kinship placements, they need to have
more oversight and support by the GOA even if guardianship is given. At the
very least the kinship placements need to have unannounced visits by case
workers up to a year. If there are abuse complaints, there needs to be
oversight for longer periods. With any abuse complaint there needs to be timely
action taken. Follow up by the GOA (Child Intervention Services) should have
been immediate in this case especially considering that there was a prior
complaint. Why is there no documentation?---
The Canadian government and mainstream media reporting
and denouncing the critical situation faced by children in war-torn countries
such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Yemen, mostly
blaming their respective rulers for atrocities perpetrated on children. But here in Canada we also witnessing every
day shocking crimes committed on children and parents. The responsibilities of these monstrosities
are the criminal policies dictated by the government and private institutions. Also the mainstream and community media, Provincials
and Canadian Human Rights Organizations of this country are accomplices for the
cover up of state crimes perpetrated especially on children, women, seniors,
and parents.
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