Huronia Regional Centre

Huronia Regional Centre: If we got caught talking, we had to get up with our pants down and walk around the play room with our pants down, recalled Marie Slark, 59, who spent nine years of her childhood at the Huronia Regional Centre, according to The Star. Slark, Seth and thousands of other former residents are alleging systemic neglect and abuse at the Orillia, Ont., facility, which the province operated for 133 years. Some say they were forced to work in the fields for no money and Humiliation and abuse were doled out almost daily at an Ontario institution for the developmentally disabled, punishment for infractions as minor as speaking out of turn, former residents allege in a class-action lawsuit against the provincial government. In other instances, children whose behaviour earned them a black mark were kicked and struck by their peers at staffs insistence, she and another plaintiff, Patricia Seth, said in an interview. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.