Elise Stolte reports for The Edmonton Journal :
Pneumonia victim latest of grisly string of child deaths
A Hobbema family wants answers after an infant died of pneumonia in her foster mother's home.
"We knew she was sick," the baby's grandmother said on Wednesday. "If I had a chance, I would have grabbed her and taken her to the doctor myself."
The 13-month-old girl died Saturday night. She cannot be identified because she was in provincial care.
An autopsy Tuesday found nothing suspicious in the child's death, but toxicology results are pending, RCMP Cpl. Greg Crook said. Police were called to the home Saturday night and found paramedics trying to revive the child. She was later declared dead at Wetaskiwin's hospital.
"It's just a terrible set of circumstances," Crook said.
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Kasohkowew's authority was temporarily revoked in 2002 after a string of child deaths.
A review showed staff were badly overworked.
At the time of their deaths, all the children were either in Kasohkowew's care or known to its child-protection workers.
Two died in fires, one drowned in the bathtub at his Red Deer foster home, another died from head injuries inflicted by a foster parent, one died from a cough-syrup overdose, another by choking on a balloon, and a teenage girl hanged herself.
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