A Toronto-area man has filed a lawsuit against the Ontario government and the Children's Aid Society of Toronto alleging he was moved between more than 40 residential placements and subject to repeated sexual, physical, and psychological abuse during the 12 years of childhood he spent under provincial care.
A Toronto-area man has filed a lawsuit against the Ontario government and the Children's Aid Society of Toronto alleging he was moved between more than 40 residential placements and subject to repeated sexual, physical, and psychological abuse during the 12 years of childhood he spent under provincial care.
“The trauma I sustained happened under the care of state agents who have a mandate to keep children safe and I was just never safe,” he said. When he was 10, Stavrou claims a foster parent struck him in the face and that he responded in self-defence, prompting the family to involuntarily place him in a youth detention centre for several weeks. There, the suit claims he was subject to “solitary confinement, mechanical restraints, and psychotropic drugs intended to pacify and sedate him.”
When he was 12, Stavrou was admitted to a group home in Oshawa, Ont., where he stayed for about eight months. While living at the home, he was sexually assaulted and raped by another resident, the suit alleges. Within his professional and personal life, Stavrou has suffered severe episodes of mental health breakdowns, arising from his treatment while under provincial care, the lawsuit outlines. “He has struggled to maintain employment and relationships with colleagues, authority figures, friends and family,” it reads.
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