Kevin and Jared's Law

PETITION TO THE PARLIAMENT OF ONTARIO


JUSTICE FOR KEVIN AND JARED





WHEREAS 8 year old Jared Osidacz of Brantford was brutally murdered by his father on March 18th 2006 during a court ordered unsupervised access visit and





WHEREAS 2 year old Kevin Latimier died on February 2nd 2004 after falling from his father's third floor apartment window during a court ordered unsupervised access visit and





WHEREAS Burlington MPP Cam Jackson has introduced Bill 89 Kevin and Jared's Law, an act to amend the Child and Family Services Act and The Coroner's Act to better protect the children of Ontario and mandate an automatic Coroner's Inquest when a child dies while in the care of parent who is, or has been, the subject of a court access order, and





WHEREAS Kevin and Jared's Law will designate family members as having standing during such inquest and be eligible for financial payment of legal costs through the Victim's Justice Fund and





WHEREAS the province of Ontario has unclear guidelines and inconsistent policies for court ordered supervised access programs to fail to prioritize the safety and welfare of children above all else, and





WHEREAS Section 22 of the Coroner's Act allows the Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services to direct a Coroner's Inquest be held into a death whose circumstances merit public scrutiny so as to prevent other deaths ands injury, and





WHEREAS on April 4th 2006 Cam Jackson MPP, on behalf of the victim's family, formally requested The Minister to direct such an inquest into the deaths of these children which was refused without substantive reason,





THEREFORE Be it resolved that we the undersigned call upon the McGuinty goverment to call an immediate Coroner's Inquest and to pass into law BILL 89 as soon as possible to give Kevin and Jared the voice they were denied in life before any more children's lives are lost.