From: brewnoser2@gmail.com   
      
   CBC News · Posted: Feb 18, 2021   
      
   Foster teen killed in Ontario home run by for-profit company   
      
   Province renewed firm’s licence after one foster teen was charged with   
   murdering another   
      
   Battered, bloody and nearly naked, 15-year-old David Roman made a simple plea   
   moments before he was stabbed to death in an Ontario foster home: "Please help   
   me."   
      
   David died on Feb. 19, 2019, in a home in Barrie, about 110 kilometres north   
   of Toronto. Another resident of the home, a 14-year-old, was charged with   
   first-degree murder.   
      
   The accused and David were among four foster teens, two of them with a history   
   of violence, under the care of Expanding Horizons Family Services Inc., a   
   for-profit company that hired a 24-year-old foster parent with no experience   
   raising children and no    
   relevant education beyond high school.   
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   Watch "Fatal care" on The Fifth Estate Thursday at 9 p.m. on CBC-TV or stream   
   on CBC Gem.   
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   I plan to watch the above CBC exposé . . . . It's another 'for profit'   
   program that should never, ever have been acceptable or administered under   
   current criteria. Not unlike the for-profit care homes for the elderly.   
      
   And the above example of a 24-year old with no 'kid experience' shows just   
   what kind of person has been acceptable as a "foster parent".   
      
   I once worked beside a young woman who was married to a guy who was unemployed   
   more often than employed. She was making a fair salary, but obviously it   
   wasn't enough for their 2-parent, one-kid family. Their solution? Become   
   foster parents.   
      
   They 'took in' 3 native kids . . . . ages between 10 and 14. This foster mom   
   was working full time: 8:30-4:30. The husband was working odd jobs and away   
   from home about the same hours. Where were the foster kids and their own kid   
   after school hours? With    
   the elderly MOTHER of the female foster parent. Not old, but over 65 years old.   
      
   What the hell kind of foster parents put the foster kids in the care of their   
   elderly mother? What the hell kind of government foster program allowed that   
   kind of placement for "care"?   
      
   Maybe it was a slight level better care than the 3 native kids had with an   
   alcoholic single mother, but not the kind that gave them much more than a   
   single cooked meal and someplace to sleep at night.   
      
   Big money for taking in the 3 native kids - for whom a premium was being paid   
   because of their 'special needs' due to their background. The female foster   
   parent passed herself off as being 'part native background' to get the native   
   kids, whose care paid    
   bigger bucks.   
      
   Monthly payments (BC):   
   Monthly foster payments range from $983 to $2,906 per child based on the level   
   of care required. Half of B.C. foster care providers are designated Level 2 or   
   Level 3, meaning they care for children with higher needs.   
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   Big, challenging criteria list too (BC):   
   If you're an Aboriginal or non-Aboriginal adult (19+ years old), consider   
   sharing your home and life with a child in need and apply to be a foster   
   caregiver. You don't have to be married, be a parent, own a home, or have lots   
   of money – you don't have    
   to be a Status Indian, either.   
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   Do the math: 4 foster kids with aboriginal status . . . likely $2500+ per kid   
   per month - to the for-profit company. So why wouldn't a 24-year-old guy, not   
   married, no experience with children, be hired to become a foster parent? Then   
   multiply this    
   monthly income times the number of kids they have in multiple homes all   
   throughout the province . . . .   
      
   https://timesnowcanada.com/a-foster-parent-was-killed-at-his-hom   
   -in-ontario-run-by-a-commercial-company/89588/   
      
   Do we dare ask Jagmeet Singh to take on this issue alongside the extended care   
   homes one?   
      
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