An Ottawa police officer is facing charges of discreditable conduct for undertaking unauthorized investigations into the possible connections between the deaths of nine children or infants and their parents’ COVID-19 vaccination statuses.
Between June 2020 and January 2022, Constable Helen Grus allegedly “self-initiated an unauthorized project” to probe those death cases, according to a notice of disciplinary hearing issued by the Ottawa Police Service’s (OPS) professional standards unit.
“You did, without lawful excuse, act in a disorderly manner or in a manner prejudicial to discipline or likely to bring discredit upon the reputation of the Ottawa Police Service (OPS), in that you self-initiated an unauthorized project, wherein you accessed nine child and/or infant death cases in which you had no investigative role/responsibility, and failed to then record your involvement or findings in the files,” says the document, dated July 26.
On Jan. 30, 2022, Grus allegedly contacted the father of a deceased infant and inquired about the mother’s vaccination status, without the lead detective’s knowledge.
Grus, a detective with the OPS’s sexual assault and child abuse (SACA) unit, has been suspended with pay since February.
The OPS declined to further comment on the ongoing issue involving the Police Service Act.
Grus was ordered to appear in a disciplinary hearing on Aug. 8 via teleconference.
The provincial coroner and the police are tasked with investigating when an infant dies unexpectedly, without explanation, or from unnatural causes.
“As police officers it is incumbent on us to investigate all avenues of potential cause of death,” the group said.
The Epoch Times reached out to the police group for comment but didn’t hear back by publication time.
