We encountered...actually it's almost up to $60,000 now for the legal bill to ensure the safety of my granddaughter. She is residing with my brother and his wife. They had temporary custody after my daughter's body was found; the father was not deemed suitable, nor were his parents.
In the midst of that we had a judge in the family court decide that he was going to take a group of files pertaining to children who were “in the system”, as they call it, and get them into permanent residences or permanent accommodations. For whatever reason, he took my granddaughter's file, a child who was in the middle of a murder investigation, and this resulted, as I said, in over $60,000 in legal expenses. The result was the same; it was our family.
In addition to that, we've incurred legal expenses. When I arrived in St. John's I was not able to take possession of my daughter's body because she was 10 days away from her divorce; therefore she was not legally divorced and the accused had the right to take possession of her body. Before I could do anything, I had to pay $3,000 to file an affidavit in the Supreme Court of Newfoundland to object to that.
It went on and on from there. In fact, one of the things that I think is deplorable is that my daughter's family lawyer was in receipt of a document that my daughter had given her three days before her murder outlining what might happen to her. This family lawyer decided she needed to give that document to the authorities. In order to do that, she consulted with a criminal lawyer, and he billed her. The Newfoundland law association would not reimburse her for that charge, so she decided she would pass that bill on to the victim's mother, and naively, I paid it.
There were travel expenses and lodging expenses, and I contribute to my granddaughter's well-being, which is $600 a month. Her education will be something that I will have to undertake. There's a lot of miscellaneous expenses--