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When skiing wasn’t a good fit, Guy Mitchell discovered an unexpected love of snowshoeing. It led him to multiple Special Olympics meets, new friends — and multiple medals.
In the warmer months, he was a champion bowler, earning trophies at that too.
His life came to a tragic end Sunday night when he apparently fell into a cistern at his Jerseyville Road West home. Mitchell, who was developmentally disabled, lived at the residential care home, east of Lynden Road, for 26 years.
Two days before Guy Mitchell died and police stumbled upon the fetid and filthy conditions he lived in, the agency overseeing his home inspected it and gave it a pass.
The stunning revelation was raised Monday not by a lawyer or a witness at the inquest into Guy's death, but rather by members of the jury.
Why did she (the social worker) not see the condition of the house and report it?" a juror asked Why did she (the social worker) not see the condition of the house and report it?" a juror asked Sherry LaFleur, who was on the witness stand.
"She did not see or walk through the bedrooms," Sherry LaFleur, who was on the witness stand.
There was no heat or running water. Toilets and bathtubs were full of human waste. Feces was smeared on walls, floors and furniture. The fridge was a filthy mess containing nothing more than old condiments. Beds were stripped bare and smeared with vomit.
A Choices support worker previously testified that Guy regularly came to his day school program with dirty and long fingernails, unbathed and with lunches that were inadequate and sometimes mouldy.
That worker said while she believed Guy was neglected, she did not know if it met the definition of abuse. Although she shared her concerns with supervisors within the agency, she did not report them to police.
A meeting was scheduled to take place on April 20, 2012 between Keri and various Choices staff members. But the meeting was cancelled and before it could be rescheduled, Guy was dead.
It is believed Guy — who had difficulty seeing and hearing and was "clumsy" — was fetching water from a deep cistern when he fell in and drowned.
Keri-Lynne Santor was 26 when her mother died in August 2011, leaving her responsible for the special care home they operated at their house on Jerseyville Road West in Ancaster.
Keri-Lynne Santor was located and interviewed a second time on Aug. 8, 2014.
She refused to answer any questions. On Tuesday, the coroner's inquest into Guy's death heard there is an arrest warrant out for Santor. She is wanted on charges of assault bodily harm, mischief and obstructing police in connection with an April 2013 incident in Mattawa, Ontario.
Her whereabouts are unknown, on July 8, 2015
Mitchell, a 38-year-old who functioned at the level of a five-year-old.
This is as frightening as a Stephen King story.
The ending, is that two were rescued from that horrific home.
http://www.thespec.com/news-story/5...will-protect-developmentally-delayed-adults-/
There has been hours of testimony about Guy and David arriving at day programs dirty, smelly, soiled, in filthy clothes, shoes that were four sizes too big, hungry, with inadequate lunches of burnt popcorn, mouldy sandwiches, juice boxes years past their expiry dates. There has been evidence of unexplained injuries: Guy's broken rib, David's cut to the head and swollen feet.
Abused and neglected animals were removed from the home, marijuana was grown on the property, a payday loan company was looking for Keri.
Observers came and went from this house of horrors, and no one rescued them from it, until one died.
http://www.thespec.com/news-story/5...interim-director-comes-under-fire-at-inquest/
In the warmer months, he was a champion bowler, earning trophies at that too.
His life came to a tragic end Sunday night when he apparently fell into a cistern at his Jerseyville Road West home. Mitchell, who was developmentally disabled, lived at the residential care home, east of Lynden Road, for 26 years.
Two days before Guy Mitchell died and police stumbled upon the fetid and filthy conditions he lived in, the agency overseeing his home inspected it and gave it a pass.
The stunning revelation was raised Monday not by a lawyer or a witness at the inquest into Guy's death, but rather by members of the jury.
Why did she (the social worker) not see the condition of the house and report it?" a juror asked Why did she (the social worker) not see the condition of the house and report it?" a juror asked Sherry LaFleur, who was on the witness stand.
"She did not see or walk through the bedrooms," Sherry LaFleur, who was on the witness stand.
There was no heat or running water. Toilets and bathtubs were full of human waste. Feces was smeared on walls, floors and furniture. The fridge was a filthy mess containing nothing more than old condiments. Beds were stripped bare and smeared with vomit.
A Choices support worker previously testified that Guy regularly came to his day school program with dirty and long fingernails, unbathed and with lunches that were inadequate and sometimes mouldy.
That worker said while she believed Guy was neglected, she did not know if it met the definition of abuse. Although she shared her concerns with supervisors within the agency, she did not report them to police.
A meeting was scheduled to take place on April 20, 2012 between Keri and various Choices staff members. But the meeting was cancelled and before it could be rescheduled, Guy was dead.
It is believed Guy — who had difficulty seeing and hearing and was "clumsy" — was fetching water from a deep cistern when he fell in and drowned.
Keri-Lynne Santor was 26 when her mother died in August 2011, leaving her responsible for the special care home they operated at their house on Jerseyville Road West in Ancaster.
Keri-Lynne Santor was located and interviewed a second time on Aug. 8, 2014.
She refused to answer any questions. On Tuesday, the coroner's inquest into Guy's death heard there is an arrest warrant out for Santor. She is wanted on charges of assault bodily harm, mischief and obstructing police in connection with an April 2013 incident in Mattawa, Ontario.
Her whereabouts are unknown, on July 8, 2015
Mitchell, a 38-year-old who functioned at the level of a five-year-old.
This is as frightening as a Stephen King story.
The ending, is that two were rescued from that horrific home.
http://www.thespec.com/news-story/5...will-protect-developmentally-delayed-adults-/
There has been hours of testimony about Guy and David arriving at day programs dirty, smelly, soiled, in filthy clothes, shoes that were four sizes too big, hungry, with inadequate lunches of burnt popcorn, mouldy sandwiches, juice boxes years past their expiry dates. There has been evidence of unexplained injuries: Guy's broken rib, David's cut to the head and swollen feet.
Abused and neglected animals were removed from the home, marijuana was grown on the property, a payday loan company was looking for Keri.
Observers came and went from this house of horrors, and no one rescued them from it, until one died.
http://www.thespec.com/news-story/5...interim-director-comes-under-fire-at-inquest/
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