The jury in the investigation of the Forenso of Florence Girard has returned a unanimous verdict, classifying the death of the 54 -year -old woman with Down syndrome as homicide caused by the starvation.
Homicide is a neutral term for death caused by humans that does not imply crime or intention.
The jury of five people also presented 13 recommendations, including a better pay for first -line caregivers, visits not announced to households where vulnerable clients are made and placed to support the relatives of a vulnerable person who wishes to take care of that person in Your home.
Girard weighed around 50 pounds when he died in 2018 at the house of Port Coquitlam of the caregiver paid Astrid Dahl.
The jury foreman told the coroner Donita Kuzma that the sharing suppliers at home should obtain “a salary worthy of the complexity of the necessary care” beyond paying basic needs.
The foreman says that the jury, which deliberated for almost two days, heard “repeatedly” that the funds are not suitable to attract and retain the suppliers of home shares.
Recommendations also include compensation for home actions coordinators in charge of monitoring housing arrangements comparable with the payment of similar positions with the Ministry of Development of Children and Families.
Dahl was a subcontractor of Kinsight Community Society, an agency under Community Living BC contract (CLBC), the Crown Provincial Corporation that finances adult services with developmental disabilities.
In 2022, Dahl was convicted of not providing Girard with the needs of life. Its initial conditional sentence of 12 months increased to a 15 -month prison sentence by the BC Court of Appeals in 2023. DAHL never turned any time in jail due to the duration of the judicial process. The charges against the stop were suspended.
Forensic consultations are formal judicial procedures that publicly review the circumstances of a death to address community concerns or raise awareness about preventable deaths, according to the BC Coronant Service website.
The jury members are not accused of finding failures, but recommendations to issue to avoid similar deaths in the future.