Loved one details family s recovery from firepit mishap that killed baby
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Charges laid in Bayham, Ont., fire pit incident that killed child, injured 4 others
Provincial police have charged a 55-year-old Bayham man in a firepit incident that left a one-year-old dead and four others severely injured.
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Posted: Jul 23, 2021 2:42 PM ET | Last Updated: July 23
Police tape was placed around a backyard fire pit where five people were seriously injured in Bayham, Ont., on July 12, 2021.(Angela McInnes/CBC)
Provincial police have laid charges in a fire pit incident that left a one-year-old child dead and four others severely injured in Bayham, Ont., on July 12.
A 55-year-old Johan Hiebert from Bayham is facing one count of criminal negligence causing death and four counts of criminal negligence causing bodily harm.
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The incident, in the Lake Erie shoreline community of Port Burwell, happened during a family cookout. A relative of the affected family has told The Free Press the fire wouldn’t start and an accelerant was poured on it.
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Jake Hiebert and Tina Hiebert and three of their children suffered severe injuries. The children – two girls, ages seven and one, and a four-year-old boy – suffered life-threatening injuries, and the parents, Jake, 33, and Tina, 28, were seriously injured, police said at the time of the fire. The one-year-old girl, Layla, died in hospital.