Huronia survivors told some case files are missing

Carrie Ann Tompkins spent eight years in the notorious Huronia Regional Centre
but the Ontario government now says it can't find her case file.

Carrie Ann Tompkins knows she went to Huronia Regional Centre. She remembers her eight years there, flushing pills down the toilet so they didn’t muddle her mind. She remembers toiling at work that staff should have been doing.

But her case file, the paper record of her time in there, can’t be found by the government.

“I’ve been phoning them and everything and they keep telling me that the files, there’s so many of them to try to find, and they can’t find my file,” Tompkins said. “They told me that no such person was there in the name of Carrie. They sent me a letter and said that they can’t find that person. I know I was in there.”

She has received a claim form for the class-action lawsuit connected with the facility, meaning she was on the list of former residents.

Tompkins, who says she was at Huronia from 1963 to 1971, is one of 90 former residents who have been told their files can’t be found. Throughout the process, survivors have complained of excessive government delays in producing their case files, something that prompted lawyers for some claimants to request a time extension.  (more...)

Huronia survivors told some case files are missing

And the misery compounds:

Settlement payments delayed to mistreated residents of Ontario institutions