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From the Toronto Star, I'm Kevin Donovan, and this is Death in a Small Town.

Episode 7, Graduation Day.

On October 31st, 2015, Nathaniel McClellan, 15 months of age, of the municipality of North Middlesex, died in a London hospital.

This is episode seven of death in a small town. To be perfectly honest, I never thought there would be in episode 7. Then this happened.

Members of the Strathory Care Doc Police Service and the Ontario Provincial Police

under the direction of the OPP Criminal Investigation Branch,

arrested a Strathory resident following a joint investigation in the death of a 15-month-old child.

It's Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021.

Our series on Nathaniel's death and the botched police investigation hit the front page

of the Toronto Star exactly one week ago.

Out of the blue, Detective Inspector Pete Liptrot of the Ontario Provincial Police has released

a press statement via YouTube.

It's the first public comment

by police on the case in six years. Liprod has short, trimmed brown hair, tortoiseshell

glasses and a broad face. He's wearing a dark suit, blue and brown tie, and a check shirt,

the triangular black and gold insignia of Ontario's police force above his

right shoulder. He looks more like a banker or a mutual fund analyst. The veteran investigator's

eyes flit down to notes on a lectern as he reaches the meat of his announcement.

Megan Van Hoof, 42 years old of Strathroy, has been charged with manslaughter.

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