Foster Care Safe? For A Child's Protection!?
The father of a two-year-old boy who died while in foster care says he was told that the child drowned in a bathtub.
Chris Martell wants to know more about what happened at the farm property near Aberdeen, Sask., but said he isn't getting much information from the RCMP or the Social Services Ministry.
Police said the boy was in a home with five other children and two adults when he suffered an injury.
On Tuesday afternoon, an ambulance was called and the boy was taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Martell said he hasn't slept since then.
He was trying to have his son placed in a home with the boy's aunt and visited his son just a few days before he died, he said.
"The last thing he said to me was 'Bye-bye, Dad.' I was hoping to see him Friday."
Instead, Martell said, he's planning a wake for that day.
The funeral will be held at Sturgeon Lake First Nation on Saturday.
Aberdeen is about 40 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon.
Chris Martell will be my brother in-law sometime in the future. He is in the papers, His Son Evender "Accidently" drowned in a bathtub under the care of foster parents, But the correnor says differently, Evender was burned head to toe except where his diaper was. Now I ask who the fuck bathes a child with their diaper still on?!?! Evender Lee Daniels was 22 months years old and tragically passed on. All my life I had the belief that Social Services was a bunch of shit, Now this proves my point These foster Parents are going along with the story of Evender drowning, But even if he did, Why was he burnt head to toe and why the hell weren't one of these adults present while bathing him?