Inquest into starved boy's death hears children's aid involved with grandma

TORONTO - The mother of a five-year-old boy who starved to death at the hands of his grandparents says she had no idea her parents had a sordid history of child abuse when she consented to placing her kids in their care.

Yvonne Kidman testified Tuesday at a coroner's inquest into the death of five-year-old Jeffrey Baldwin, who weighed just 21 pounds when he died, about the same as he did on his first birthday.
"If I would have known all this stuff about my parents I wouldn't put my kids in that spot," she said.

But despite Norman Kidman and Elva Bottineau's history of child abuse, the Catholic Children's Aid Society not only placed Jeffrey and his siblings under their care, they had sent foster children to the couple years earlier, the inquest heard.  (more...)

Inquest into starved boy's death hears children's aid involved with grandma