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Tammy, after her release.

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“Honestly, I never thought I would see this day,” Marquardt said. “I thought, ‘There is no justice. They’re going to believe him and they’re not going to believe somebody like me.'"

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“Honestly, I never thought I would see this day,” Marquardt said. “I thought, ‘There is no justice. They’re going to believe him and they’re not going to believe somebody like me.'"

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-Tammy Marquardt

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Tammy Marquardt, the Ontario woman who was wrongfully imprisoned for 14 years in the death of her two-year-old son, says she hopes to find her two other sons, who were put up for adoption after her arrest.

Marquardt, 38, lost custody of boys Keith and Eric after she was convicted of murdering her son, Kenneth Wynne. That conviction was quashed in 2010, and on Tuesday, Marquardt was completely exonerated, after the Crown decided not to re-try her.

Marquardt says she has put her name on an adoption registry in hopes that her sons will be able to track her down if they come looking for her.

"I hope they will find me but I'm not going to force myself on them because the last time they seen me, they were babies. They're teenagers now. Who would I be to just jump in their lives?" she told CTV's Canada AM Wednesday.

Marquardt was convicted based on the testimony of now-disgraced pathologist Charles Smith, who decided that the young mother likely smothered her son. But she always maintained her innocence.

After a public inquiry revealed that Smith repeatedly offered misguided court testimony that sent several innocent people to jail, Marquardt's case was re-examined.

At least five experts have since repudiated Smith's findings, suggesting Kenneth likely died from an epileptic seizure and entanglement in his sheets. The experts concluded the cause of death should have been recorded as "unascertained."

Marquardt blames Smith for her wrongful conviction but also for the loss of her sons, one of whom was born while she was in Kingston's Prison for Women and seized from her within hours of his birth.

"For me, I feel like Keith and Eric were kidnapped in a sense, because had he (Smith) not done this to me, I'd have my boys," she says.

Marquardt says she hopes Smith suffers the way she has.

"I hope you live your own personal hell for what you put all of us through," Marquardt said when asked what she would say to Smith if she had the chance.

Smith was stripped of his medical licence earlier this year, after pleading no contest to charges of disgraceful conduct. Most of the convictions from cases in which he testified have since been overturned.

While Marquardt says she blames Smith, she also blames the police and court system.

"It wasn't just him. We can't just blame the one person. It was the whole system. They're the ones who were brushing me under the carpet," she said.

Marquardt says she still can't believe her 17-year-long ordeal is finally over.

"I don't think the reality has actually sunk in yet. I'm still a little afraid I'm going to wake up and still be in my nightmare," she said.

Marquardt, who was released from prison in 2009, now has a nine-month-old daughter, named Tiffany, and is engaged to be married. But she says she still grapples with terrible emotional pain.

"The only way I can describe the feeling of it is to have your heart ripped out and have someone hold it in front of you, basically, until it stops beating. The pain is so deep that there are no words," she said.

With the worry of being tried again now lifted and her name now cleared, Marquardt says she wants to focus on the future.

"I wouldn't say I can get my life back, but I can move on from here. I can't really pick up the pieces that were lost," she said.

"I'm really hoping to move forward."

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Tammy Marquardt, an Ontario mother who was exonerated of second-degree murder in her child's death, appears on Canada AM, Wednesday, June 8, 2011.

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Tammy Marquardt, the Ontario woman who was wrongfully imprisoned for 14 years in the death of her two-year-old son, says she hopes to find her two other sons, who were put up for adoption after her arrest. Marquardt, 38, lost custody of boys Keith and Eric after she was convicted of murdering her son, Kenneth Wynne.

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The disgraced pathologist who gave faulty testimony

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OSHAWA, Ont. - An Ontario mother was finally vindicated Tuesday in the murder of her toddler son, nearly two decades since his death and after spending more than 13 years in prison largely based on the faulty testimony of discredited pathologist Charles Smith.

"I'm free. I am free," said a visibly shaken Tammy Marquardt outside the Oshawa courthouse shortly after a second-degree murder charge against her was withdrawn.

Despite a tattoo she got on her arm of the word "freedom," she said she never believed her name would ever be cleared.

"Honestly I never thought I would see this day," said Ms. Marquardt. "I thought there is no justice. They are going to believe him (Smith) and they're not going to believe someone like me."

Earlier, the Crown told Ontario Justice Michael Brown that it did not wish to proceed with a new trial against the 38-year-old due to fresh evidence that shows the cause of death to be inconclusive.

In 1995, at the age of 21, Ms. Marquardt was sentenced to life in prison for the sudden death of her son Kenneth Wynne, 2 1/2.

Smith, the Crown's star witness at the time, concluded from the boy's autopsy that he had died from "asphyxia" through strangulation or smothering.

New expert evidence since then has provided alternative theories, including the possibility the epileptic toddler's sudden death was brought on by his condition.

As a result of her incarceration, she lost custody of two other young sons who were put up for adoption. She said she and her fiance Rick hope to reconnect with the boys, who are now teenagers, and move on with their lives and be good parents to their nine-month-old baby, Tiffany.

"My nightmare is finally over," said Ms. Marquardt, clutching a photo of a smiling Kenneth. "The one thing that never should've happened has ended. Now Kenneth can finally rest in peace. It's been too long."

In court, Ms. Marquardt sat composed during the hour-long proceedings but openly cried when her lawyer James Lockyer read aloud the transcript of the 911 call she had made when she found her son entangled in sheets in her bedroom and not breathing.

When emergency crews arrived at her Oshawa home that night in October 1993, they transferred the boy to Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children and immediately took her to the police station for questioning.

Mr. Lockyer said the police and everyone else involved in the case quickly concluded that Ms. Marquardt, then a young and inexperienced mother who had an unstable relationship with the boy's father, had suffocated her own son in a fit of frustration.

"Tammy Marquardt was essentially an easy target," he told the court. "She was an easy target for Charles Smith and an easy target for the criminal justice system."

Ms. Marquardt has always maintained her innocence.

"She was convicted for a murder that did not happen," said Mr. Lockyer, who added that his client will be seeking compensation from the province.

Justice Brown said it was his "deepest regret" that it took so long for Ms. Marquardt to be freed.

"Nothing I can say today will repair the damage that has been caused to you," he said. "Nothing I can say will bring back your son Kenneth for whom you still grieve. I wish my words could do that."

Justice Brown added that he hoped Ms. Marquardt would be able to "pick up the pieces" of her life and learn to "live outside the shadow of criminal prosecution."

His last words to her were: "You are free to go now, ma'am."

Last February, Ontario's highest court quashed Ms. Marquardt's second-degree murder conviction and ordered a new trial. Prior to the introduction of new evidence, a previous appeal in 2005 was denied.

From the 1980s to the 2000s, Smith was a leading Canadian expert in pediatric forensics. He acted as a star witness in pathology for the Crown in hundreds of cases involving suspicious child deaths, despite having no formal accreditation or training.

In 2007, the Ontario chief coroner launched a two-year probe into Smith's work and found major problems with 20 of the 44 autopsies the former doctor performed. Twelve of those cases had resulted in charges or convictions. To date, the Ontario Court of Appeal has overturned seven convictions connected to Smith's faulty testimony.

At least six others are still waiting to be heard by the courts. According to the provincial government, it has paid $5.5-million in compensation to nearly 30 people wrongly charged or convicted based on Smith's faulty evidence.

Earlier this year, Ontario's medical regulatory body handed down its harshest sentence by stripping Smith of his medical licence. He reportedly lives in Victoria.

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By Linda NguyenOSHAWA, Ont. - An Ontario mother was finally vindicated Tuesday in the murder of her toddler son, nearly two decades since his death and after spending more than 13 years in prison largely based on the faulty testimony of discredited pathologist Charles Smith.

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What lawyers have to say about Tammy's case.

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When Tammy Marquardt was just 22 years old she was wrongfully accused and convicted of murdering her two and half year old son, Kenneth. It was alleged that Marquardt suffocated her son causing his death. After her exoneration, Marquardt's version of events were accepted as true. According to Marquardt the events that transpired leading up to her son's death on the afternoon of October 9, 1993 were that she went to check on Kenneth as he was napping. When she attended his room she found him tangled in sheets, gasping for breath and in severe distress. She attempted to to free him but was unable to. She then called 911. The operator instructed her to perform CPR, but she was unable to follow the instructions properly as she was too panicked. Kenneth was taken to hospital by emergency responders, he was revived but the doctors determined that he had suffered irreversible brain damage. Shortly after Kenneth was taken off life support and passed away.

Marquardt had the misfortune of having Kenneth's autopsy preformed by now infamously disgraced pathologist Charles Smith. At the time Smith was considered a renowned expert on criminally suspicious paediatric deaths. Smith concluded that Kenneth's cause of death was non-accidental asphyxia. On November 23 1993 tammy was arrested and charged with second-degree murder.

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At Marquardt's trial Smith testified, providing expert evidence that Kenneth's cause of death was by strangulation or smothering. The Crown proposed that Marquardt had strangled her son in a loss of temper. The defence argued that Marquardt was innocent, pointing to his pre-existing health problems of asthma, pneumonia and epilepsy as a possible cause of death. The Crown's proposed narrative, along with Smith's testimony was more compelling to the jury. On October 24, 1995, Marquardt was convicted of Kenneth's murder. She was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 10 years. The defence went on to appeal her conviction to the Ontario Court of Appeal but was unsuccessful as on January 22, 1998, her appeal was dismissed. Marquardt was reliant on Legal Aid Ontario. She was unable to make an application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, as Legal Aid would not provide funding for her application.

Marquardt maintained her innocence and while she was incarcerated Charles Smith was beginning to be discredited. His findings were being called into question in a number of criminal cases for which he had provided expert testimony against accused. In 2004, Tammy applied to AIDWYC for assistance. AIDWYC successfully urged a full public inquiry into Smith's work on behalf of Marquardt and other wrongfully convicted in connection with Smith's autopsies. Although the process was slow on June 7, 2005 Marquardt had some success, as a formal review would be conducted of criminally suspicious child deaths for which Smith had performed the autopsy.

On October 2007 a report was released pursuant to the review of Smith's findings in Kenneth's autopsy. It stated that Smith's finding of asphyxia was "illogical and completely against scientific evidence-based reasoning." And that "[t]here is not sufficient evidence for the diagnosis of asphyxia to be made. A further review was conducted that concluded that Smith had wrongly attributed Kenneth's death to homicidal asphyxia, and that Kenneth may have died during an epileptic seizure or from other natural causes.

On February 10, 2009, armed with these findings AIDWYC brought an application for leave to appeal Tammy's case to the Supreme Court of Canada. This request was granted and on March 12, 2009, Tammy was released custody pending the decision on her application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. On April 30, 2009, the Supreme Court of Canada issued an order remanding the case to the Court of Appeal for Ontario for consideration of the fresh evidence and a determination of whether Tammy's conviction constituted a miscarriage of justice. On June 7, 2011, the Ontario Court of Appeal overturned her conviction and ordered that a new trial. The trial never occurred as the Crown withdrew the charges against Tammy, based upon the reviews of Kenneth's autopsy and the implications of the new findings. After nearly fourteen years Marquardt was finally free from the possibility of a further wrongful conviction.

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When Tammy Marquardt was just 22 years old she was wrongfully accused and convicted of murdering her two and half year old son, Kenneth. It was alleged that Marquardt suffocated her son causing his death. After her exoneration, Marquardt's version of events were accepted as true.

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Charges have been withdrawn against an Ontario woman who spent 13 years in jail after being convicted of killing her toddler - in part because of evidence from now-disgraced pathologist Dr. Charles Smith.

Tammy Marquardt was convicted of second-degree murder in the death of her two-year-old son Kenneth Wynne in 1995.

But the conviction was based on evidence from pathologist Charles Smith, who was recently stripped of his medical licence for professional misconduct and incompetence. He testified at Marquardt's trial that Kenneth was strangled or suffocated, when the toddler had actually died of an epileptic seizure.

Earlier this year, the Court of Appeal for Ontario quashed Marquardt's second-degree murder conviction, calling her a victim of a miscarriage of justice and ordering a new trial.

Marquardt said nothing could be done to compensate for what Smith has done.

"I don't think that anything could vindicate," Marquardt told reporters outside an Oshawa court. "He has to live in his own personal hell and so there's nothing that really that I or anyone else could do.

"I would ask him what he thought he was doing and who he thought he was and why, why did he do it? What possessed you to play God?"

Coroner's review

An Ontario coroner's inquiry reviewed 45 child autopsies in which Smith had concluded the cause of death was either homicide or criminally suspicious.

The coroner's review found that Smith made questionable conclusions of foul play in 20 of the cases - 13 of which had resulted in criminal convictions. After the review's findings were made public in April 2007, Ontario's government ordered a public inquiry into the doctor's practices.

That inquiry, led by Justice Stephen Goudge and concluding in October 2008, found that Smith "actively misled" his superiors, "made false and misleading statements" in court and exaggerated his expertise in trials.

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Charges have been withdrawn against an Ontario woman who spent 13 years in jail after being convicted of killing her toddler - in part because of evidence from now-disgraced pathologist Dr. Charles Smith. Tammy Marquardt was convicted of second-degree murder in the death of her two-year-old son Kenneth Wynne in 1995.

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Medical and legal experts often disagree on how to determine the cause of a child's unexpected death. One result is that parents sometimes are wrongly accused of murder and sent to prison. No place has uncovered a bigger problem - or dealt with it more directly - than Ontario, Canada. That change can be seen in the arc of Tammy Marquardt's life.

In 1993, Marquardt was sleeping in her apartment in Oshawa, Ontario, when her 2-year-old son, Kenneth, cried out for her. When she got to his crib he was tangled in the sheets, and by the time the emergency workers arrived, he had stopped breathing.

Marquardt, then 21, was charged with smothering and killing her son. When she insisted she was innocent, no one believed her.

Marquardt, who was pregnant again, was sentenced to life in prison. When she got there, she was told not to tell anyone why she was incarcerated.

"A baby killer would basically get the living daylights beaten out of them," she says. "A baby killer is classified as one of the lowest on the lowest in the totem pole in prison."

So she lied and said she was in prison because she had killed her husband.

But that lie didn't protect her for long. Soon, her case was on television and reported in the newspapers. And from that day on, she had to fight, push and kick when other women attacked.

Marquardt is tiny - about 5 feet tall and weighing just 85 pounds. Her red hair, in a pixie cut, frames her hollow cheeks.

She spent 14 years in prison - then was released on parole.

This past February, Marquardt nervously faced a wall of reporters and photographers outside a courthouse in Toronto after an appeals court overturned her conviction. Justice Marc Rosenberg told her there had been "a miscarriage of justice" and that she had been convicted because of a "flawed" and falsified autopsy report that found she had smothered her child.

Marquardt told reporters she still grieved for the son who died and for her two other boys who were taken from her and put up for adoption when she went to prison.

She has never seen them since.

"Try having your heart ripped out and someone squeezing it right in front of your face," she told the reporters outside the courthouse. "There is no real words for it. It is just a lot of pain and hurt that cannot be fixed."
'Thinking Dirty'
Marquardt is one of at least a dozen people prosecuted for killing children in Ontario based on what later turned out to be tainted medical evidence. Courts in just the past few years have overturned several of those convictions, and more are under review.

"People were wrongly convicted, yes," says Stephen Goudge, a justice on Ontario's Court of Appeal.

He led a government inquiry that stunned Canada - particularly what it turned up about Charles Smith, a pediatric pathologist who conducted many of the autopsies in Ontario's child abuse cases.

"He really grew to an iconic stature in the field in Canada," Goudge explains.

Smith had been so highly respected that defense attorneys told their clients they couldn't win if Smith testified against them.

"Partly because of his reputation, partly because of what he told juries, a number of convictions probably were based in significant measure on his opinions," Goudge says.

But as Goudge's inquiry discovered, Smith was trained to study disease in children. He had no training to study cases when a crime was suspected. Even worse: Smith lied, hid evidence and used junk science. He did what it took to get a conviction.

Goudge says Smith and other medical experts and prosecutors were infected with a mindset called "think dirty," which presumes guilt first.

" 'Think dirty' reflects a cast of mind that was prevalent often with the child care community in the 1990s," Goudge explains. "That is, injuries observed were deliberately inflicted - that's the presumption to be disproved."

The Goudge Commission found the actual words "think dirty" in instructions from Ontario's chief coroner to coroners, pathologists and police chiefs in 1995.

At the time, there was reason to fear that some cases of children being murdered were being missed and sometimes classified instead as sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS. That's a category for deaths when the cause can't otherwise be determined.

But by "thinking dirty," pathologists and prosecutors often ignored other reasons the children may have died.

"A common feature of all these cases is that there were always very good explanations for why each of these children died," says James Lockyer, the Toronto lawyer who represents Marquardt and several others whose convictions have been overturned.

"I mean, it wasn't complicated to work out how these children died," says Lockyer, the founding director of the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted. "They had pre-existing conditions, whether it was an epileptic condition or some other kind of condition."

Lockyer says Marquardt's son died from an epileptic seizure. Doctors had put the boy on two drugs to control epilepsy. But at trial, Smith and other prosecution medical experts minimized his epilepsy, even though, over the two years of his life, the boy's medical records showed many seizures and multiple trips to the emergency room. Prosecutors argued that these were just common seizures among young children that result from a high fever.

As part of an ongoing look into the troubled state of death investigation, ProPublica, NPR and PBS Frontline identified nearly two dozen cases in the U.S. and Canada in which people have been accused of killing children based on flawed or biased work by forensic pathologists and then later cleared.

Smith claimed in his testimony that he could tell the boy had been smothered, probably with a pillow. (We tried to contact Smith. He hung up without comment when we reached him on the phone.)

Lockyer says there was something else that was common among the people he has helped exonerate. "Most of the victims of Smith, if not all of them, were easy, easy marks," says the attorney. "And Tammy was a good example of an easy mark. She was a young, single mother. She was impoverished, she was on welfare."

In his autopsy report, Smith speculated that Marquardt had killed her child because she had acted out of anger over the chaos in her own life. She was a teen mother with a history of substance abuse and troubled relationships with men. That day, her boyfriend had gone to be with a woman who was giving birth to his child.

But the pathologist's emphasis on this - which became the prosecution's theory - was pure speculation, not science.
Dinesh Kumar's Story
When Dinesh Kumar's 5-week-old son, Gaurov, died, Smith did the autopsy and concluded that the baby was a victim of shaken baby syndrome, and that the father, who was caring for the boy at the time of his death, must have been responsible.

Kumar was charged with murder.

He says his lawyers told him to take a plea deal from prosecutors because he'd have no chance of winning in court against Smith. "He's like a god," Kumar says his lawyer said of Smith. "Nobody can challenge his report."

So Kumar pled guilty to criminal negligence causing death, even though he says he didn't kill his infant son. He took the plea because, he says, he felt there was little choice.

Prosecutors offered him 90 days of community service. That allowed Kumar and his wife to keep their other son, Saurob, who then was just a year old.

Otherwise, Kumar was told, Saroub would be placed in foster care and put up for adoption. If there was a conviction, Kumar, who had immigrated to Canada from India just one year before, could be deported.

"This is the hardest decision I have in my life," Kumar says of taking the plea deal. "Lots of my friends, my relatives, they know I'm innocent," Kumar says. But others, including some at his temple, assumed, since he'd taken a guilty plea, that he must have been responsible for his son's death. "They talk in back of me: 'This is the guy who killed his own son.' "

That was 1992. Today, medical experts understand that just because the child went into distress in his father's arms doesn't mean the injury happened at that moment. Now it's thought that Gaurov died from bleeding on the brain due to an injury at birth.

This January, the Ontario Court of Appeal exonerated Kumar, too.
Another Smith Mistake
Journalist and attorney Harold Levy says warning signs about Smith were ignored for years. One reason, he says, was that prosecutors and police knew they could get an autopsy report from Smith that would help them win their prosecutions. "Because of all the guilty pleas, because he almost guaranteed convictions," says Levy, "and it took the load off them."

Levy says alarms about Smith went back to one of the first people to be charged. In 1988, a 12-year-old baby sitter, reported that she had dropped the 16-month-old girl she was caring for on the stairs. The child later died in the hospital.

Smith concluded from the autopsy that the babysitter had shaken the baby violently, and she was charged with manslaughter. But in 1991, the trial judge, Patrick Dunn, acquitted the girl and wrote a decision that was scathing in its criticism of Smith's sloppy work.

Levy, who wrote about the case for the Toronto Star, says there had been nothing in the 12-year-old baby sitter's past to suggest "that this girl could ever be violent to any child. She loved that child. And yet Smith 'thought dirty' and tried to turn her into something akin to a murderer."

Smith, he says, took cases of ordinary people and "turned them into murderers."
Ontario's Learning Lessons
Ontario is trying to improve forensic examinations to make sure Smith's mistakes are never repeated.

The change is visible on a tour of Ottawa Hospital with Christopher Milroy, a new forensic pathologist for Ottawa but a veteran pathologist from England who also worked on Ontario's investigations of pediatric autopsies.

Milroy opens the door to the new forensic suite, the room where he conducts autopsies in criminally suspicious deaths.

This autopsy room is just a year old. More money is being spent on forensic pathology now - for equipment, modernized space and salaries - to try to raise the profession.

Advances in science mean pathologists need to be better trained than ever. They conduct more tests for rare metabolic disorders and genetic diseases. They order X-rays, CT scans and MRIs.

Ontario has changed the rules for how to do an autopsy - and who does them. "We've gone beyond the era where you have self-trained, self-taught people," Milroy says. "You wouldn't want your surgeon to be self-trained and self-taught. Why should you have your forensic pathologist not certified?"

There are lessons that American policymakers can also learn from Canada about how to improve child autopsies. Some of those solutions require spending more money. But others are simple.

Canada - just like the U.S. - lets doctors do autopsies even without board certification. Ontario now expects forensic pathologists to get better training, or it will hire new ones from countries that demand a lot of training - like Milroy, who came from the United Kingdom.

Great Britain reviewed its child death cases in 2003 after courts released three women who had been jailed for killing their babies. It turned out that they were convicted largely on one medical expert's flawed testimony. The review, completed in 2006, found three more British parents and caregivers who also may have been wrongly convicted.

The investigations in Canada, which turned up Charles Smith's flawed autopsies, concluded that the problem went deeper than one rogue pathologist. So now all autopsy reports in criminal cases are done by teams and are peer reviewed.

Milroy says there's another big change: It's in the way courts, police and even pathologists themselves see the role of the forensic pathologist. "We think the truth," Milroy says. "What can I say about this case - truthfully? What cannot I say about this case truthfully? One of the things that is important as a forensic pathologist is that you are not - and this is where again Smith erred - you are not part of the prosecution team."

There are still disputes in Canada over unexpected child deaths just as there are in the United States.

Levy, who continues to write daily on his blog, shows a construction site in Toronto where a massive five-story building is going up. It's the new Forensic Services and Coroner's Complex that will have state-of-the-art space and equipment.

The autopsy rooms - which traditionally are tucked away in dark basements - will be placed in large open areas with high windows and a lot of natural light. Still, Levy says, "I'm a little skeptical, because governments love to have palaces, and so they can show concrete - no pun intended - but concrete things that they have built and make people forget about the past."

Real reform, he says, will only come if Ontario never forgets this past.
Marquardt Exonerated
Tammy Marquardt can't forget. She's a mother raising a child again. Her daughter Tiffany was born last August.

Marquardt, now 39, lives in a small house in Toronto with her baby, her fiancee, his mother and his teenage daughter.

In June, she won total exoneration when prosecutors announced they won't reopen her case.

She thinks about her son who died. And she wonders about her other two sons, who were put up for adoption when she went to prison - especially when she's in a crowd and sees teen boys, she says.

"Like, especially around that age, I sit there and go: 'I wonder: Could that one be mine? Could that one be mine?' For all I know, I could be sitting next to my son on the subway and not even know it."

Charles Smith never faced charges. Earlier this year, a medical board stripped him of his license and ordered him to pay a $3,650 fine.

The regulatory board also ordered Smith to appear in person to hear its reprimand.

Marquardt was there to see it, but Smith didn't show up.
Sandra Bartlett and Anne Hawke of NPR News Investigations contributed to this report.

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Justice at last for wrongly convicted Oshawa woman

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OSHAWA -- Tammy Marquardt walked out of the Oshawa courthouse and into the warm sunshine of a Tuesday morning, strode to a bank of microphones, and smiled. \