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MANDEL: Agency found negligent for employee's drowning fined $225,000

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Ashiru Sarafa Awoyemi was a support worker for intellectually disabled adults in Newmarket , Ontario .

He was found dead in a pool at New Leaf: Living and Learning Together Inc. on Feb. 12, 2021 .

An Ontario Court judge found the non-profit agency and its former day program manager guilty of multiple violations under the provincial Occupational Health and Safety Act .

Justice Rohan Robinson ordered the cash-strapped New Leaf to pay $ 225,000 in fines.

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