Truth behind Jeffrey Baldwin’s death a ‘sickening’ revelation to his mother

Jeffrey Baldwin

Jeffrey Baldwin’s mother sat shell shocked Tuesday as she learned the lurid details of her parents’ monstrous dysfunction and the staggering incompetence of the Catholic Children’s Aid Society of Toronto.

It was the lethal confluence of those two things — human cruelty and institutional failure — that directly led to her little boy’s death on Nov. 30, 2002.

Yvonne Kidman is testifying at the Ontario coroner’s inquest into Jeffrey’s death at the age of five at the hands of his grandparents, Elva Bottineau and Norman Kidman — Yvonne’s parents.

The little boy died, a broken shell of a child, of pneumonia and septic shock, but the underlying cause was chronic starvation.

Yvonne was being questioned by Freya Kristjanson, lawyer for Jeffrey’s three surviving siblings.

Rat-tat-tat, Ms. Kristjanson fired questions at Yvonne that she couldn’t answer, because for her, they weren’t questions, but revelations.

“I don’t know anything about this,” she repeated many times, shaking her head. “I don’t know anything about it.”  (more...)

Truth behind Jeffrey Baldwin’s death a ‘sickening’ revelation to his mother