A 45-year-old man is facing multiple charges in connection with the death of a three-year-old girl who police say was poisoned.
Toronto police and the Ontario Coroner’s Office began an investigation after the girl died on March 7, 2021, after eating breakfast cereal at home.
“She quickly grew weak, vomiting … and by the time I rushed to get to her, she was barely breathing, and looking ashen,” Maurine Mirembe said of her three-year-old daughter Bernice, in a GoFundMe post.
Police allege that a man obtained a “controlled substance” from his work, and that substance was placed into children’s breakfast cereal.
During a sleepover, two children in
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