With her voice breaking, Andrea Brown told an inquest her son Samuel was fine when she dropped him off at W. Ross Macdonald School for the Blind in Brantford, Ont., in February 2018, but was told days later he was pronounced dead in hospital and an inquest wasn’t needed because “he was a kid with a disability.”
Brown was the first of 13 expected witnesses at the 10-day inquest that began Monday. Samuel died overnight at Brantford General Hospital on Feb. 9, 2018.
“Samuel was loved and Samuel enjoyed life,” Brown testified.
The 18-year-old deaf, blind and non-verbal student had been attending W. Ross Macdonald School for
