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| Jeffrey Baldwin as a healthy toddle |
In a way, how Yvonne Kidman on Wednesday summed it up, her mangled construction notwithstanding, says it all.
“I wasn’t completely overwhelmed,” she snapped. “But I was whelmed, yeah.”
She was completing three days of testimony at the Ontario coroner’s inquest examining the Nov. 30, 2002, death of her five-year-old son, Jeffrey Baldwin.
The little boy was terribly abused and starved to death by his grandparents, her mom and dad, Elva Bottineau and Norman Kidman.
Over several years, the grandparents had won custody in family court of four of Yvonne’s children, including Jeffrey, with the blessing of the Catholic Children’s Aid Society of Toronto.
Yvonne was answering a question about her inadequacies as a parent from Brian Gover, lawyer for the agency, when she said she had been merely “whelmed,” not overwhelmed.
Mr. Gover had been having at her for about an hour.
Yvonne several times lost patience with him, peevishly demanding breaks and for long stretches refusing to even look at him, deliberately turning her face from his.
He enumerated her many failures, paying particular attention to Yvonne’s habit of putting Jeffrey’s sister to bed with a bottle of juice, which appears to have led to her losing her baby teeth. (more...)
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