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BeautyWithin
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Jun 19, 2008 02:56 PM
THE CANADIAN PRESS
MONTREAL–A Quebec coroner says a 9-year-old autistic boy died of suffocation after a teacher rolled him up in a heavy blanket to calm him down.
The death occurred in April at a school for children with special needs in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, about 40 kilometres south of Montreal.
A report by coroner Catherine Rudel-Tessier says Gabriel Poirier was placed on his stomach and then had a therapeutic blanket wrapped around him four times.
The report says teachers wanted to punish the child for being too noisy.
The young boy was left alone in the corner of a classroom, but when the teacher went to check 20 minutes later the child wasn't moving and was in a coma.
Therapeutic blankets, often stuffed with buckwheat or steel balls, have been used for several years to relax autistic children and prevent behavioural problems.
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mom2bax
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Jainaday
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| Face down restraints are dangerous. |
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jat
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| I about this, too. It happened in April, but the story is just coming out now. The child was only 53 pounds and the blanket weighed 40 pounds! He was wrapped head to toe. His head was covered. The school said he died naturally and calmly! The whole thing is horrifying. How could anyone thing to wrap such a small child in such a heavy blanket, yet alone leave him on his stomach, in a corner of the room, and not check on him for twenty minutes? I hope there will be criminal charges. |
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BeautyWithin
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| jat wrote: | | I hope there will be criminal charges. |
I hope so too! |
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tweety_fan
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| RIP KID |
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slowmutant
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Was he held facedown against the blanket with his mouth & nose covered?
I've heard of this. It could be Positional Asphyxiation.
And only 9 years old. 
Let's all hope he has gone to a place where there is no pain or fear. RIP, kid. |
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Pandora
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| jat wrote: | | I about this, too. It happened in April, but the story is just coming out now. The child was only 53 pounds and the blanket weighed 40 pounds! He was wrapped head to toe. His head was covered. The school said he died naturally and calmly! The whole thing is horrifying. How could anyone thing to wrap such a small child in such a heavy blanket, yet alone leave him on his stomach, in a corner of the room, and not check on him for twenty minutes? I hope there will be criminal charges. |
It almost sounds as if they wanted him to die
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slowmutant
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| The assumption here is that the boy was wrapped in a blanket by someone who meant to kill him. Why is this always the assumption? |
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jat
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| I don't think there's an assumption that anyone intended to kill the child. The problem here is that the adults in charge were so intent on stopping what they saw as the child's unacceptable behavior, that they didn't pay attention to the ramifications of what they were doing. They just wanted the noise and the behavior to stop - I don't think for a minute that they wanted to kill the child. I do think they weren't thinking about the child, though. Anyone who was thinking about the child would have recognized that wrapping a small child in a heavy blanket, and leaving him (wrapped) face down, would be dangerous. The criminal charges wouldn't be murder - they would be some lesser charge of manslaughter (no intent) and gross negligence of a caretaking duty. People who shake babies (shaken baby syndrome) generally aren't trying to hurt or kill the baby, either - they just want the baby to stop crying. The fact is, the baby gets hurt, and the shaking is wrong and dangerous. It's the same kind of problem, just a little differently presented. |
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Everchanging
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Pity Canada got rid of capital punishment.  |
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Danielismyname
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| That sucks. |
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Jainaday
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| slowmutant wrote: | | The assumption here is that the boy was wrapped in a blanket by someone who meant to kill him. Why is this always the assumption? |
No it isn't.
Negligence can be criminal and evil. |
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Eel_Nadroj
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Isn't that considered abuse? But the real question is...is the family pressing charges?
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