--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > There was a bad story in Canada about welfare fraud > which shocked me. > You probably know it - the pregnant 41-year-old > woman, convicted of > welfare fraud because she was receiving welfare > payments and then > applied for a student loan so she could go to > university. Sentenced > to have the overpayment deducted from her already > very meagre monthly > payments AND house arrest, allowed to leave her home > (from memory) > only 3 times a week for an hour each time, or > thereabouts. She was > allowed to go out more often if she needed to, but > only with advance > written permission. This woman had suffered from > depression in the > past and this was known. Nonethless, she was left > unable to leave > her home, with virtually no money, 8 months pregnant > with her first > child, no partner, in a small, shabby appartment in > Toronto, I > believe, last August, which was sweltering. And she > killed herself.
It wasn't Toronto, but it was somewhere in Ontario - somehow I'm thinking Brantford or one of the smaller towns. I think she was younger than 41, in her 20s I think, and the whole thing is sickening and appalling. House arrest? and the point of that would be? On the 41-yr old thing, maybe you're thinking of the homeless woman that gave birth at Toronto City Hall and abandoned her newborn baby outside on one of the coldest nights of the year? This was a week or two ago. Everyone's quick to condemn the woman for that and here we go again with the poor and the fact that they're to blame for their own misfortune. Maybe if she had had a place to live and proper medical care...? (The baby was found and survived and last I heard was still in Sick Kids hospital in critical but stable condition and is expected to be fine.) ===== Catherine Toronto ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
