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Jeremiah Perry was out of his depth in Algonquin Park’s cold, deep water when he went on his school canoe trip almost four years ago.
Like many children who grew up in the Caribbean, the 15-year-old didn’t know how to swim and was only allowed to wade into the warm sea waters with floating aids or a life jacket.
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“He wanted to learn how to swim but as a single mother, I could not afford it,” explained his mom Melissa Perry.
Published Tuesday, May 11, 2021 7:30PM EDT The trial of a Toronto school teacher, accused of criminal negligence in the drowning death of a 15-year-old student, has begun. On July 4, 2017, Jeremiah Perry was on a school canoe trip when he drowned in Big Trout Lake at Algonquin Provincial Park. “He wanted to learn to swim, but I could not afford it,” his mother, Melissa Perry told the court on Tuesday morning. “As a single mother, yeah, it was hard, because I had bills to pay. Perry testified that her son lived in the Caribbean with his grandmother or with her until September 2016, when Jeremiah and his brother moved to Toronto to live with their father.
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