Chief Coroner Dirk Huyer told Justice Sheilagh O’Connell on Tuesday that more than 7,000 people aged 10 to 24 years old have died in Ontario between 2007 and 2018. The data has been collected from the Ontario ministries of education, children and youth, training and colleges, corrections and health, McPhail said. The team is collecting up to 3,000 data points for each of the 7,335 child and young adult deaths they are reviewing, she said. Huyer said they will try to get a “normal” trajectory for a child and compare that with, for example, those who dealt with the youth justice system. Huyer used to work with “the living” on the child abuse team at the Hospital for Sick Children before becoming a coroner.

Source: thestar December 03, 2019 20:37 UTC