No charges against cops, paramedics in B.C. child welfare case
VICTORIA — No charges will be approved for police officers and paramedics in Delta, B.C., who didn’t file a report with the Children’s Ministry about a girl whose death prompted change for children in care.
British Columbia’s criminal justice branch said Tuesday there is no substantial likelihood that the officers or paramedics would be convicted for not reporting the incident involving 17-year-old Paige Gauchier in January 2011.
The branch said Gauchier was intoxicated and had a bleeding nose when she walked into a gas station in Delta at 2 a.m. and said she’d been assaulted by six girls. She refused to go to hospital on the recommendation of paramedics.
The branch said police called an uncle she was living with in Vancouver and he asked that she be sent home by taxi, but the officers and paramedics did not contact the ministry.