Native Child and Family Services of Toronto stressed today they had no involvement in placing Katelynn Sampson in the home of her accused killers.Incredibly, it appears as though the court was complicit in the traditional "dumping of the child"...
"This is a private arrangement between Donna Irving and Bernice Sampson," the agency said in a release.
Irving, 29, and her common-law husband Warren Johnson, 45, were charged with second-degree murder after the seven-year-old was found dead in their apartment early Sunday.
The statement publicly confirmed NCFST seized Irving and Johnson's two children earlier this week.
The judge said Sampson not being in court was a problem because she wanted to know what to do about the missing father.More than one assumption... equals... one dead child.
"She will not come back to court," McPherson said. "She thought that was all she needed to do was to come and say that she was fine with it and she feels like she's done her part, I guess, I'm assuming."
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Like his co-accused, Johnson also has a criminal past.*
He was charged with assault in 1997 but the charge was withdrawn. A threatening charge from the same incident was withdrawn after he signed a peace bond.
In April 2000, he received a conditional sentence for possession of a substance for the purpose of trafficking. He received nine months probation and a 10-year weapon prohibition. In December 1999 he was fined $402 for possession of narcotics.
His common-law wife has past criminal convictions including prostitution and assault with a weapon.