Coroner’s Jury Recommendations Into Death Of Jeffrey Baldwin

In February 14, 2014, a Coroner's Jury looking into the death of Jeffrey Baldwin, a five-year-old Toronto boy who starved to death in 2002 while in the care of his grandparents, released 103 recommendations. A number of the recommendations made by the jury pertain to ways in which Ontario school boards can work to improve the identification and protection of children who are subjected to abuse and neglect.

In 1998, Jeffrey was taken by the Catholic Children's Aid Society from his teenage parents, both of whom were emotionally volatile, and he and his siblings were placed in the care of their grandparents. Both of Jeffrey's grandparents had previous convictions for child abuse, but those records weren't discovered in the Catholic Children's Aid Society's own files until after his death in 2002. The family's caseworker testified that she never conducted any record checks on Jeffrey's grandparents, as she perceived them to be reliable and supportive in comparison to