The Quebec coroner’s office is investigating the death of an elderly woman who, three days before her death, had been found tied to her bed, naked and soiled, in a long-term care residence in Montreal’s Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie borough.
The 81-year-old woman, identified by Radio-Canada as Marie M., died overnight on Feb. 8 at the Centre d’hébergement Saint-Joseph-de-la-Providence.
The residence is publicly funded but privately operated by the Congrégation des Soeurs de la Providence.
Radio-Canada reported that a Canadian Red Cross worker helping out at the home due to a COVID-19 outbreak had been appalled to find the woman restrained, naked and left in her own excrement.
In response to a Radio-Canada report published Thursday,
