Family seek return of stolen cochlear implants
Five-year-old Annie Matheson of Vancouver had her $60,000 cochlear implant sound processors stolen from a Surrey community centre over the weekend.
After Annie’s lesson — the only available in Metro Vancouver tailored for deaf children, with a sign-language interpreter on hand — the young family returned to the locker. Their dad, Dan, is site pastor at the Tenth Church in Kitsilano and was working at the time. Sadly, the family’s 2014 Mazda 5 was missing and a busy Saturday turned into a painful one with waiting, calls to police, meeting cops and arranging a ride back to Vancouver.Annie is one of about 300 children in B.C. who have had cochlear implant surgery. Annie had hers at age three after getting a late diagnosis that she was profoundly deaf. The implant processors are worn all day and taken off for sleeping or any time in the water.
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