Father of dead toddler Nathan McLellan testifies police lied during interrogation

[shockedcanadian]

These are the kinds of lowlifes Americans want to emulate?

If Canadian police demand you kneel before them, do you do so with glee?

Wake up. We aren't like you nor your ally. Demand change from us and you will save Canadian lives.

Canada is a Stone Age shytehole, the sooner you force changes the better it will be for us who live here. If we don't share your values than why do we receive such benefits in trade? We need liberty not police state appeasers.

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Father of dead toddler Nathan McLellan testifies police lied during interrogation

Kent McLellan, the second witness at the babysitter’s trial, says OPP were trying to get him to confess that his wife had a role in their son’s death.

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The father of a baby that died mysteriously told court that police put him through a gruelling “interrogation” after their son’s funeral, using lies to try to get him to confess that his wife had a role in their son’s death.
The detective “was trying to make me believe that Rose-Anne had just confessed to something happening with her,” Kent McLellan told a London court. Meggin Van Hoof, the babysitter looking after 15-month-old Nathaniel, is on trial facing a manslaughter charge. Van Hoof has pleaded not guilty.

Court earlier heard from Rose-Anne Van De Wiele, Nathaniel’s mother, who testified that both the Strathroy-Caradoc and Ontario Provincial Police had focused their investigative efforts on them.

McLellan is only the second witness to testify at the trial, which began in September. He took the witness stand Tuesday afternoon, answering questions from Crown counsel Lerren Ducharme.

The owner of a heating and air conditioning company, McLellan said he and Van De Wiele have been married 26 years. He described Nathaniel as a happy, active little boy, who loved to go on walks (McLellan credits the arrival of Nathaniel with helping him lose 75 pounds) on their rambling, 180-acre property in Parkhill, Ont.
“He just wanted to be with you,” McLellan told the trial, his voice cracking. Nathaniel was their fourth son; Van De Wiele was pregnant in October 2015 when, as he described it, their world was turned upside down.

That Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015, McLellan was in a Burger King drive-thru in Strathroy, where his wife taught school and where Nathaniel was being cared for two days a week by Van Hoof in an unlicensed home daycare.

He was very happy that day, he told court. The family had just had a fun weekend celebrating his father’s 70th birthday, his family was thriving and work was going well. He recalled doing a silly “happy dance” at one of his job sites that morning because the installation of an oil tank by one of his work teams was going so well.
Just before he picked up his sandwich at the drive-thru window, an unknown number popped on his phone. Strathroy hospital was calling, telling him to come quickly. At the time, his wife, Van De Wiele, did not own a cellphone. McLellan recalls walking into the hospital ER and being directed to where his wife was, then taken into a room where Nathaniel was being readied for transport to the better-equipped hospital in London.


Just a few hours before at home, McLellan said Nathaniel was his normal happy self, munching on “Baby Mum Mums,” a rice-based teething biscuit, and a full bowl of oatmeal McLellan had made before heading off to work. The evening before was “haircut” night for the older boys and Nathaniel was giggling as he threw the cut hair up in the air. McLellan said that there was nothing wrong with his son the night before or the morning of the accident.



Nathaniel McLellan the night before he collapsed, with dad Kent.
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Rushing into the ER, McLellan said he was told by hospital staff their son had suffered an “injury to his head.”
“I bent down to give him a kiss and I noticed he had suffered something on the left-hand side of his head, above his temple,” McLellan told the court. “There was some kind of an impact mark ... that I had not seen that morning” before leaving for work.

An ambulance took Nathaniel to London, and his parents followed behind. McLellan said he was surprised when a Strathroy police detective, questioning him, asked if he had “a life insurance policy” on Nathaniel. It was just one of a series of interactions that caused him to lose trust in the police, McLellan said.
The toddler died several days later on Oct. 31. On Nov. 11, after his funeral, McLellan said the OPP (which had taken over the probe) told him they had information for the couple, but they would have to come to see police in Strathroy. Distraught, McLellan said his father drove them. In Strathroy, the couple was separated and questioned separately.

McLellan said an OPP detective “interrogated” him for three hours.
“She lied to me,” McLellan said of the detective. “I felt like they were trying to get me to confess to something.” McLellan said police were trying to make him believe that his wife had just “confessed” to injuring their son.


That was in 2015. In 2021, OPP detectives laid a manslaughter charge against Van Hoof, the babysitter. The charge came less than a week after a Toronto Star investigative series on the case was published. The series was also published as a podcast.

At the end of Tuesday’s testimony, McLellan said that the summer after Nathaniel died he went to visit Van Hoof, searching for answers. He said his decision to go was prompted by seeing a Facebook post from Brian Van Hoof, the husband of the babysitter. He said the post was a picture mimicking the outline of a corpse — “a person’s dead body in their kitchen, they had it outlined with beer cans.” He said seeing the social media posting upset him and he felt like the Van Hoofs were “taunting” him.

McLellan has not yet been asked to describe his visit to speak to the babysitter.
The trial is presided over by Judge Michael Carnegie. There is no jury. The trial continues Wednesday.

 

[Concerned American]

These are the kinds of lowlifes Americans want to emulate?

Sounds like you've got problems of your own making to tend to. I don't know of many Americans that have the slightest desire to emulate anything Canadian. LOL, wasn't it you that said Canada's best and brightest have already gone to the US?

 

[shockedcanadian]

Sounds like you've got problems of your own making to tend to. I don't know of many Americans that have the slightest desire to emulate anything Canadian. LOL, wasn't it you that said Canada's best and brightest have already gone to the US?

They deny the freedom of citizens to even work, to their G-d given Right to Self Determination.

Don't you think men like me would have left for America a long time ago if the state wasnt engaging in Lawfare and stealing our homes, our economic resources and earnings?

Excuse my French, but stop being a *****. This is the time in history in which we need men of honour, strong men, Mensches. Too many of your officers want to become Creepy Ones a la Canada. Thankfully Trump, Kash, Gabbard and others won't allow it.

If Harris won how many of you would be happily destroying citizens lives for being born in the wrong part of town? Having the wrong political opinion?

 

[Concerned American]

They deny the freedom of citizens to even work, to their G-d given Right to Self Determination.

Don't you think men like me would have left for America a long time ago if the state wasnt engaging in Lawfare and stealing our homes, our economic resources and earnings?

Excuse my French, but stop being a *****. This is the time in history in which we need men of honour, strong men, Mensches. Too many of your officers want to become Creepy Ones a la Canada. Thankfully Trump, Kash, Gabbard and others won't allow it.

If Harris won how many of you would be happily destroying citizens lives for being born in the wrong part of town? Having the wrong political opinion?

Take care of your own problems. The US didn't put you in your predicament. Your votes and and lack of awareness did. Now you're looking for a scapegoat to blame. Look somewhere else.

 

[Augustine_]

These are the kinds of lowlifes Americans want to emulate?

If Canadian police demand you kneel before them, do you do so with glee?

Wake up. We aren't like you nor your ally. Demand change from us and you will save Canadian lives.

Canada is a Stone Age shytehole, the sooner you force changes the better it will be for us who live here. If we don't share your values than why do we receive such benefits in trade? We need liberty not police state appeasers.

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Father of dead toddler Nathan McLellan testifies police lied during interrogation

Kent McLellan, the second witness at the babysitter’s trial, says OPP were trying to get him to confess that his wife had a role in their son’s death.

www.thestar.com

The father of a baby that died mysteriously told court that police put him through a gruelling “interrogation” after their son’s funeral, using lies to try to get him to confess that his wife had a role in their son’s death.
The detective “was trying to make me believe that Rose-Anne had just confessed to something happening with her,” Kent McLellan told a London court. Meggin Van Hoof, the babysitter looking after 15-month-old Nathaniel, is on trial facing a manslaughter charge. Van Hoof has pleaded not guilty.

Court earlier heard from Rose-Anne Van De Wiele, Nathaniel’s mother, who testified that both the Strathroy-Caradoc and Ontario Provincial Police had focused their investigative efforts on them.

McLellan is only the second witness to testify at the trial, which began in September. He took the witness stand Tuesday afternoon, answering questions from Crown counsel Lerren Ducharme.

The owner of a heating and air conditioning company, McLellan said he and Van De Wiele have been married 26 years. He described Nathaniel as a happy, active little boy, who loved to go on walks (McLellan credits the arrival of Nathaniel with helping him lose 75 pounds) on their rambling, 180-acre property in Parkhill, Ont.
“He just wanted to be with you,” McLellan told the trial, his voice cracking. Nathaniel was their fourth son; Van De Wiele was pregnant in October 2015 when, as he described it, their world was turned upside down.

That Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015, McLellan was in a Burger King drive-thru in Strathroy, where his wife taught school and where Nathaniel was being cared for two days a week by Van Hoof in an unlicensed home daycare.

He was very happy that day, he told court. The family had just had a fun weekend celebrating his father’s 70th birthday, his family was thriving and work was going well. He recalled doing a silly “happy dance” at one of his job sites that morning because the installation of an oil tank by one of his work teams was going so well.
Just before he picked up his sandwich at the drive-thru window, an unknown number popped on his phone. Strathroy hospital was calling, telling him to come quickly. At the time, his wife, Van De Wiele, did not own a cellphone. McLellan recalls walking into the hospital ER and being directed to where his wife was, then taken into a room where Nathaniel was being readied for transport to the better-equipped hospital in London.


Just a few hours before at home, McLellan said Nathaniel was his normal happy self, munching on “Baby Mum Mums,” a rice-based teething biscuit, and a full bowl of oatmeal McLellan had made before heading off to work. The evening before was “haircut” night for the older boys and Nathaniel was giggling as he threw the cut hair up in the air. McLellan said that there was nothing wrong with his son the night before or the morning of the accident.



Nathaniel McLellan the night before he collapsed, with dad Kent.
Supplied
Rushing into the ER, McLellan said he was told by hospital staff their son had suffered an “injury to his head.”
“I bent down to give him a kiss and I noticed he had suffered something on the left-hand side of his head, above his temple,” McLellan told the court. “There was some kind of an impact mark ... that I had not seen that morning” before leaving for work.

An ambulance took Nathaniel to London, and his parents followed behind. McLellan said he was surprised when a Strathroy police detective, questioning him, asked if he had “a life insurance policy” on Nathaniel. It was just one of a series of interactions that caused him to lose trust in the police, McLellan said.
The toddler died several days later on Oct. 31. On Nov. 11, after his funeral, McLellan said the OPP (which had taken over the probe) told him they had information for the couple, but they would have to come to see police in Strathroy. Distraught, McLellan said his father drove them. In Strathroy, the couple was separated and questioned separately.

McLellan said an OPP detective “interrogated” him for three hours.
“She lied to me,” McLellan said of the detective. “I felt like they were trying to get me to confess to something.” McLellan said police were trying to make him believe that his wife had just “confessed” to injuring their son.


That was in 2015. In 2021, OPP detectives laid a manslaughter charge against Van Hoof, the babysitter. The charge came less than a week after a Toronto Star investigative series on the case was published. The series was also published as a podcast.

At the end of Tuesday’s testimony, McLellan said that the summer after Nathaniel died he went to visit Van Hoof, searching for answers. He said his decision to go was prompted by seeing a Facebook post from Brian Van Hoof, the husband of the babysitter. He said the post was a picture mimicking the outline of a corpse — “a person’s dead body in their kitchen, they had it outlined with beer cans.” He said seeing the social media posting upset him and he felt like the Van Hoofs were “taunting” him.

McLellan has not yet been asked to describe his visit to speak to the babysitter.
The trial is presided over by Judge Michael Carnegie. There is no jury. The trial continues Wednesday.

The U.S. is not who you should be running to right now with complaints about there being too many bootlickers

 

[shockedcanadian]

Take care of your own problems. The US didn't put you in your predicament. Your votes and and lack of awareness did. Now you're looking for a scapegoat to blame. Look somewhere else.

I look nowhere but to make sure America does NOT become like us.

I say to you "be honest with yourself". Do you believe lie told by the state because that state is Canada?

Wake up. You fought for your Independence. You didnt fight for this to capitulate to the very system and prop up the devils to destroy the same kinds of men who died for your freedom/

 

[Concerned American]

The U.S. is not who you should be running to right now with complaints about there being too many bootlickers

I hear Canada is looking for your kind to occupy Alberta. LOL

 

[Concerned American]

I look nowhere but to make sure America does NOT become like us.

Take care of your own problems--we don't want nor need your help.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Take care of your own problems--we don't want nor need your help.

You speak far too soon and how soon you forget what was happening under Bidens reign. Amazing really but also frightening.

You stand with those of us being destroyed or you will experience the same. How many lost their jobs for their political views? How many silenced? How many jailed for opinions?

Wake up.

 

[Concerned American]

You stand with those of us being destroyed or you will experience the same.

You're in your position because you lacked the fortitude to do anything about it. Blaming your neighbors and attempting to compare the two is ludicrous. Get your grass roots working in your own country and stay out of our internal politics. We don't need your noses in our business--you've got enough problems to keep you busy.

 

[shockedcanadian]

You're in your position because you lacked the fortitude to do anything about it. Blaming your neighbors and attempting to compare the two is ludicrous. Get your grass roots working in your own country and stay out of our internal politics. We don't need your noses in our business--you've got enough problems to keep you busy.

I will continue to support good Americans, Europeans or those in Asia, Middle East, wherever.

This isn't my "nose in your business". This is me remaining loyal to my obligations under G-d.

 

[Concerned American]

This isn't my "nose in your business". This is me remaining loyal to my obligations under G-d.

LOL, if you didn't spend so much time with your nose in other's business, maybe you wouldn't be in the predicament you are whining about. Since you decided to wrap yourself in religion, does the quote, "Physician, heal thyself," hold any meaning?

 

[shockedcanadian]

LOL, if you didn't spend so much time with your nose in other's business, maybe you wouldn't be in the predicament you are whining about. Since you decided to wrap yourself in religion, does the quote, "Physician, heal thyself," hold any meaning?

You won't find your path to heaven trampling your boots across my back. You have no idea what it is like to be persecuted by the most unaccountable and abusive of creeps, from the time one is born to their death. Abusing children...is that appealing to you? I'm one such victim and I long ago moved past them but these criminal cowards borne from dogs decided my life could not move along as an adult.

Based on the policies Trump and his team are enacting, it appears some in Canada are learning what it is like to be helpless in the face of strength. At least in Trumps case, he tried to build bridges with Canada only to face the arrogance from some people accustomed to getting their way by persecuting the weak here in Canada.

Well, Trump is the big dog in the pound and in many ways perhaps justice will be served through the bravery of good men and women born in America....yourself notwithstanding...

 

[Concerned American]

You won't find your path to heaven trampling your boots across my back. You have no idea what it is like to be persecuted by the most unaccountable and abusive of creeps, from the time one is born to their death. Abusing children...is that appealing to you? I'm one such victim and I long ago moved past them but these criminal cowards borne from dogs decided my life could not move along as an adult.

Based on the policies Trump and his team are enacting, it appears some in Canada are learning what it is like to be helpless in the face of strength. At least in Trumps case, he tried to build bridges with Canada only to face the arrogance from some people accustomed to getting their way by persecuting the weak here in Canada.

Well, Trump is the big dog in the pound and in many ways perhaps justice will be served through the bravery of good men and women born in America....yourself notwithstanding...

What did you do to help your country?

 

[TheInfiniteSadness]

I hear Canada is looking for your kind to occupy Alberta. LOL

I have to ask? Do you hate Canadians or just this dipshit? I live in Saskatchewan which is next to Alberta and make regular trips there. The separatist delusions are dead. Our Indigenous people filed a lawsuit which they will win because of the treaties they signed long ago. They were signed with the Federal government not the Alberta Government. Until that court case is settled there is no point in having a referendum to separate.

 

[shockedcanadian]

I have to ask? Do you hate Canadians or just this dipshit? I live in Saskatchewan which is next to Alberta and make regular trips there. The separatist delusions are dead. Our Indigenous people filed a lawsuit which they will win because of the treaties they signed long ago. They were signed with the Federal government not the Alberta Government. Until that court case is settled there is no point in having a referendum to separate.

I'm a dipshit?

It's guys like me who are fiercely tireless in my efforts to blow the whistle and protect the memories of those men who sacrificed for our liberties, what exactly are you doing in this regard?

I'm deaf in my ear and lost milllions in earnings due to these cowards, perhaps your vitriol is misplaced, or, perhaps it is targeting exactly who people like you prefer. Not particularly courageous I must say.

You exude the vibe of another typical Canadian boot licker.

You may find that one day the boots you lick are foreign boots. When that happens, don't point your plastic finger at me comrade...

 

[Concerned American]

I have to ask? Do you hate Canadians or just this dipshit? I live in Saskatchewan which is next to Alberta and make regular trips there. The separatist delusions are dead. Our Indigenous people filed a lawsuit which they will win because of the treaties they signed long ago. They were signed with the Federal government not the Alberta Government. Until that court case is settled there is no point in having a referendum to separate.

Fair enough. Here's the honest answer -- I hate ANY FOREIGN national that attempts to insert themselves into OUR internal affairs or tries to place the blame for their disfunctional gov't on mine. Clear enough? As for Alberta, I don't care, its not my country--that's your business.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Fair enough. Here's the honest answer -- I hate ANY FOREIGN national that attempts to insert themselves into OUR internal affairs or tries to place the blame for their disfunctional gov't on mine. Clear enough?

Who the hell is blaming your government for our demise? I am advising you to speak up just as you speak up against Mexican drug cartels. Furthermore, I am educating you so that you dont follow the path of cowardly Police State tactics that will decimate your citizens and the soul of your nation.

If you want to follow the heathens, go ahead. I will keep educating American agencies, stake holders, decision makers and just the common man. Block me if my words cause you harm. I get it, some people need a Safe Space, I won't be offended by your decision.

 

[Concerned American]

Who the hell is blaming your government for our demise?

Review your posts. You are constantly admonishing the US for your internal problems and accusing us of following your lead. Case in point, YOUR post #1, 1st sentence.
These are the kinds of lowlifes Americans want to emulate?
Where did you ever get the idea that the US does ANYTHING like Canada? Further evidence is the way you argue with your own countrymen that everyone is at fault for your personal problems except you. Hint---it ain't the whole world dude, IT'S YOU.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Review your posts. You are constantly admonishing the US for your internal problems and accusing us of following your lead. Case in point, YOUR post #1, 1st sentence.
These are the kinds of lowlifes Americans want to emulate?
Where did you ever get the idea that the US does ANYTHING like Canada? Further evidence is the way you argue with your own countrymen that everyone is at fault for your personal problems except you. Hint---it ain't the whole world dude, IT'S YOU.

Many Americas do want to emulate Canada, this is clear by the efforts of so many to spit on your Constitution and use lawfare to destroy citizens for protesting, target political rivals.

Where have you been the last five years?