This is the best summary I could come up with:
A judge is recommending an alert information-sharing system among provinces for high-risk children to protect youth like 15-year-old Alexandru Radita of Calgary, who died weighing 37 pounds.
Justice Sharon Van de Veen, in a fatality inquiry report released Monday, said such standardized cross-boundary communication “may very well have saved Alex’s life and (could) prevent similar deaths in the future.”
“Alex was near death repeatedly when hospitalized as a result of his parents’ resistance to provide the necessary insulin he needed to survive, but his file had been closed for some time,” wrote Van de Veen.
Alex was not registered in school for four years before his death, and he received irregular and insufficient amounts of insulin from pharmaceutical companies throughout that time without a physician’s oversight.
His mother Tamara Lovett, convicted of criminal negligence causing death, testified she gave her son holistic remedies for what she believed was a cold or flu.
Jennifer and Jeromie Clark were found guilty of criminal negligence causing death and failure to provide the necessaries of life for their 14-month-old son, John, in 2013.
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This reinforces my absolute pleasure in having amber alerts disabled.
The last thing I would have wanted were other provinces alerts on top of ours.
It’s a tragedy some families are so horrible, but it’s also not my problem as I take care of those around me, and that is all I should be expected to do.
And getting a full night’s, uninterrupted sleep is an important part of that. Lack of anxiety from my phone blarring is an important part of that.
It’s a child. They can’t fend for themselves when their parents are assholes. I’ll take an occasional hellish alert if it can help a child in need escape abuse. That poor kid looked so bad in the photo. Terrible. Fucking awful.
That’s wonderful of you. I could never be so altruistic.
Not even sure what the alerts have to do with this, but… I would rather be woken, than have a child slip through the cracks that could have been saved.
Some people care about others, others are selfish. You opinion is just that, yours.
The fact that you take pleasure in it is a whole other discussion…
While I agree that overly wide blanket alerts for missing children are doing more harm than good, I fail to see how that’s relevant to this article…
Edit for the downvoters out there:
Lest you think this is out of some concern for my own convenience, I’m fortunate enough to have a fairly flexible schedule and I don’t need to drive daily. I can sleep in if I get woken up, but most people need to leave and go to work regardless of a poor night’s rest. My concern is for anyone who needs to drive, or do any job where mistakes can lead to loss of life.
I’d ask you to consider daylight savings time. Studies of it have confirmed that disrupting peoples sleep en masse has a direct cost in human lives. The costs need to be considered carefully and weighed against the benefits, and alerts like this need to be as localized as realistically useful. Someone 40km away should absolutely not be getting a presidential level alert about a missing child in the middle of the night which overrides DND mode.
Is there a different alert system I am not aware of? Please enlighten me.
I don’t know if you missed it in the article or simply didn’t read it.
The case being discussed is one in which a family moved from BC to AB. As a result, they were able to leave behind an open investigation into child abuse.
There is no formal process of warning (alerting) other jurisdictions, so they got to start with a clean slate in AB.
The judge thinks that having these warnings cross boundaries might save lives.
So literally nothing to do with the emergency alert system.
Okay thanks
No problem. Next time, you can get me. :)
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