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Jill Witkin, counsel to canada goose outlet london Ontario coroner Dr. Peter Clark, was wrapping up a brief re examination of Baldwin Monday at the end of his almost three days of testimony.
With three siblings, Jeffrey was in the custody of his maternal grandparents, Evla Bottineau and Norman Kidman, both of whom were later convicted of second degree murder in the little boy’s death and of forcible confinement for the regular locking up of Jeffrey and canada goose outlet price his six year old sister in a fetid room.
canada goose black friday sale Richard Baldwin, now 37, has acknowledged that though he and his wife Yvonne Kidman didn’t live in the house, he knew much about the terrible conditions in which Jeffrey and his sister had lived, and that the little boy was gravely deteriorating, but had done nothing and called no one to help. canada goose black friday sale
“Not your mother?” Brian Gover, lawyer for the Catholic Children’s Aid Society, had just asked. “Not your brother? Not your boss? Not your co workers? Not your doctor? Not the police? Not the CCAS?”
“That is a regret I’ll have to live with for the rest of my life, sir,” Baldwin snapped.
buy canada goose jacket cheap This answer like the one where he mentioned how he canada goose outlet purportedly tried to commit suicide, or where he said, in a sing song voice, “You weren’t there sir; I was” or “You weren’t at that meeting, sir; you weren’t there” became such a standard refrain during his time in the witness stand that the jurors can probably recite each by heart. buy canada goose jacket cheap
But Baldwin also admitted that even after Jeffrey died of the triple whammy of pneumonia/septic shock/prolonged starvation, why, he had fixed the stained floor in canada goose outlet germany what had been his son’s prison bedroom, and provided new carpet and a canada goose outlet locations in toronto new canada goose outlet online reviews bed.
Until the grandparents were arrested four months after Jeffrey’s death, Bottineau believed his sisters and little brother would be returned to her; Baldwin believed that too, and saw nothing wrong with it.
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canada goose clearance As Baldwin said once, between sighs of long suffering, at that time “I didn’t realize that because of her (Bottineau actions my son had died, sir. canada goose clearance
“I wasn’t a doctor. I’m not a coroner specialist. I didn’t know what he went through,” he told Gover.
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Re examination is where coroner’s counsel, or prosecutors in the criminal courts, either try to rehabilitate a witness or at least give him an opportunity to answer hotcanadagoose more fully.
Kindly, she asked Baldwin if he’d like a short break.
“I want this to be over with,” Baldwin sighed, “so I can get on with my life.”
She wanted to know if there was any circumstance under which he would have acted and called police or someone to help his son, anything that might have made it easier for him to act.
“If somebody would have told me it’s still my responsibility (to report suspicions of child abuse or neglect) even though I don’t have custody of my childI would have reported it.
“But no one told me and my son is dead,” he said.
“If people (had been) more on my side, maybe I wouldn’t have trust issues now,” he said.
(I don’t know when “issues” became synonymous with “sociopathic behaviour” or “narcissism,” but whenever it was, Baldwin sure got the memo.)
The real value of his testimony was to shed a little light not on Jeffrey who was but one of the children he barely knew but rather on the sort of folks child care canada goose jacket outlet uk workers probably deal with on a daily basis.
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buy canada goose jacket Baldwin’s wife, Ms. Kidman, was the product of parents of absolutely monstrous dysfunction: Bottineau was convicted of assault causing bodily harm in the 1969 death of her first child; Norman Kidman was then convicted a few years later of two counts of assault causing bodily harm for beatings he delivered to her surviving kids by another man. buy canada goose jacket
All this Bottineau/Kidman information was in canada goose outlet ottawa the old files of the CCAS when Bottineau moved for custody of Jeffrey and his siblings in family court. Agency workers failed to perform either criminal record checks on the grandparents, or look in their own records.
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Bottineau, in particular, appears to have wormed her way into a solid relationship with the main worker on the file, routinely phoning her to snitch on her own daughter and Baldwin and yet managing canada goose outlet eu to be seen as a loving caregiver.
cheap canada goose uk How the CCAS came to focus its institutional suspicion solely on the two young parents, while rarely giving the grandparents more than a glance, is one of the questions that may be answered as the inquest continues cheap canada goose uk.
