11/29/2024
My daughter came with me recently to video some of the French detention centers, she asked me if it was hard for me being around all the locked up system kids while I film the various detention centers. I told her that it was at first. I often hear a kid yell out to me outside their cell windows, and my heart goes out to them.
As hard as it is for those kids to be locked up as kids, it's harder to bring those issues with us into adulthood. Kids are resilient, tough, adaptable, they will get through it, like we did. While I go visit these old detention centers, I love those kids locked up inside the walls, there is a bond between me and them, like a system family.
But, they are not the reason, I sometime isolate myself in a world of insanity chasing old system kid ghosts who haunt me, and who are not easy to find. They are in the adult prison systems, the hospitals, on the streets barely hanging on, or suffering in isolation with nothing but their addiction to keep them going. I know for a fact, that some are reading this, while thinking about ending their misery once and for all. There are only a handful of us in the class action lawsuit, we are rare and lucky to be here today.
I told her that the reason I have spent hundreds, if not thousands of hours over the passed 5 years finding old system kids, doing all these lawsuit groups (I have them in both French and English), relentlessly after the i don't give a s**t lawyers for answers that I don't always get, messaging tons of old system kids, is for the adults the kids became. That is where my heart lives. That is why I am relentless about this class action and getting a moment of financial freedom, if only for a short time for us.
I understand that not everyone feels the same way that I do, but I speak with the system kids personally, I have spoke to the majority of you on this group and lots who wrote to me briefly about their story, then disappeared again. It's been a hard life as an adult, I am always talking to the bad ass, long-term old system kids, like me. The old little Mount St Patrick's, Chemin Deacon, Outremont, Quebec kids, The Bailey House girls, Le Village girls, Dara for boys unit, Shawbridge boys, chapel in Shawbridge boys, Cite de Prairies youth Detention, Cartier kids, my heart belongs to those kids, who are now adult and the rest of the maximum security places for kids.
It's the adult old system kids that drive me, I spent over 25 years in adult prisons all across the Country and once in the States, In both federal and provincial prisons. I was on parole or probation for over 32 years. I passed my life, hurting the ones who loved me, by possessively giving into my endless addictions. I could go on. The adult old system kids who had it rough, like me, is where my heart is.
They haunt me, like that beautiful 7 year old Granby , Quebec girl that died in 2019 does. She is the reason we are in this lawsuit today, she was rescued from her closet, badly beaten, rushed to Emergency but died from the abuse shortly after arriving..
In her death, a class action was born, she lives inside of me, just like all you old system kids, who struggled through your adult lives.
I'm asking you to please hold on a bit longer, you've come this far.
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