Kim Calderon Diaz and Guanyer Mejia Fernandez

Guanyer Mejia Fernandez: Guanyer Mejia Fernandez, then 12, was her husbands cousin. As Diaz, a child welfare worker with the Childrens Aid Society, got to know the boy more, she uncovered other stories of child abuse and neglect involving members of her husbands extended family, according to The Star. Although the Diazes have already obtained guardianship, Ottawa has refused to let the boys come to Canada so the adoptions can be finalized in a Canadian court and On her wedding day in the Dominican Republic, Kim Calderon Diaz saw a young boy with bruises and welts all over his body, sitting on the curb across from her husbands house. Diaz, a Canadian-born citizen from Sarnia, and husband Rafael have been trying since 2009 to bring his four cousins to Canada: Guanyer, now 16; his brother Christofer, 12; Bryan Alexis Mejia Mateo, 13; and Leuris Oscar Vernavel Fernandez, 14. All four had suffered physical abuse. Christofer had suffered burns and subsequent infections; Bryan had a mouth full of abcesses. Guanyer and Leuris had never been to school. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.