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Mother demands answers after son, 8, put in restraints and injected on first day of school

A Toronto-area mother is searching for answers after she says her son was taken to a hospital alone in the back of a police car, placed in restraints and injected with a sedative because he was acting out on the first day of school.

Debbie Kiroff says her eight-year-old, who loves cooking, Lego and swimming, has behavioural issues and a severe learning disability. So when the principal at Holland Landing Public School phoned her on Sept. 5 to say his behaviour was “escalating,” it didn’t come as a shock.

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Shackling and sedating Ontario student ‘disgusting and unacceptable,’ Opposition leader says

In a heated exchange in the Ontario Legislature Thursday, the Opposition leader took the Liberal government to task over the treatment of a Toronto-area boy who was restrained and sedated on his first day of school.

Progressive Conservative Leader Patrick Brown said the CBC Toronto story “left a knot in the pit of [his] stomach,” and the actions of the school and hospital are “disgusting and unacceptable.”

Read more at CBC News