Parents of boys killed in Drop-In Centre fire decry treatment by CCPA officials

The destroyed Drop-In Centre where Antonio and Joshua George died. (Ministry of Social Protection photo)

Four days after the horrific deaths of her two young sons 37-year-old Sonia George is still in a state of shock and while she agrees that her living conditions were not ideal to raise her five children, she questions how her young sons could die under the care of an agency that was supposed to protect them.

With pain etched on her face, the mother of 6-year-old Antonio George, and 3-year-old Joshua George, who died tragically early Friday morning when fire ripped through the Drop-In Centre on Hadfield Street, said she has many questions and no answers.

“They are saying that under my care my children were