Three-year-old Boy Dies. Was There Negligence?

Three-year-old Boy Dies. Was There Negligence?
Three-year-old Boy Dies. Was There Negligence?

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A Canadian mother lost her son three years in a flood and is being accused of neglect. Last February the Amaranth region of Canada was flooded because the ice around it had melted. Just before 1 am on February 21, Michelle Hanson allegedly did not stop her minivan on a street closed by traffic authorities. Her three-year-old son Kaden Young died when the vehicle was pushed into the Grand River by the waters, according to a police report. Hanson, 35, held the boy tightly but the currents were very strong and snatched her from her arms.

"Kaden was snatched from his arms," Paul Nancekivell, a police spokesman in Ontario, told PEOPLE Constable. In the following months, multiple volunteers searched for the boy, according to City News Toronto, and on April 21, a fisherman found his body under a bridge in a nearby town.

Kaden Young
Kaden Young

The mother wrote on her Facebook page after the tragedy: “It has been a very long and draining two months of searching and it has come to an end. The amount of support we received was absolutely incredible and we have no way of thanking everyone.”

Police are now accusing Hanson of negligence in the death of his son after driving dangerously through a closed area. It is not yet known whether Hanson already has an attorney but will be due to appear in court on November 6. According to Nancekivell, the mother allegedly put the boy in danger by driving through an area that had been barricaded. "A closed highway is closed for a reason," says the police spokesman. "She is paying a very high price."

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