The Globe And Mail, 26 Oct 2009
Tony Khor couldn’t tell his mother when he needed to let off steam, but somehow she knew anyway. And so last Thursday, Seow Cheng Sim took Tony, her severely autistic only child, to run on the treadmill at LA Fitness, a slick and shiny gym next door to the Homewood Suites hotel.
Why Tony wound up dead, and his mother charged with first-degree murder, remained painfully unclear to the boy’s father and their suburban neighbours on Monday.
“I never saw the sign coming,” Boon Khor said outside a Brampton, Ont., court, where his wife appeared briefly.........In fact, neighbours said, the family moved to Canada from Singapore because they felt Tony, diagnosed when he was two, would receive better support services here.
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