caregiver testifies at coroner's inquest

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‘Wish I could go back in time,’ caregiver tells inquest into B.C. starvation death | Globalnews.ca

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Florence Girard , 54 , died of malnourishment and starvation in October 2018 , weighing only 50.6 pounds .

Astrid Dahl was charged in the death of a woman with Down syndrome in her care.

Dahl was convicted of failing to provide the necessaries of life in connection with Girard’s death.

Dahl said she noticed Girard started to decline at the end of summer in 2018 .

Taggart, who started Down syndrome BC after seeing the RCMP news conference about Girard ’s death said she would like to see more transparency and accountability and when someone dies in government care privacy laws should be off the table. “We are all one bad thing away from ending up in government care. Florence could be any of us,” she said..

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