Teacher charged in 2017 death of student who drowned on trip to Algonquin Park
TORONTO — An Ontario teacher has been charged in the death of a student who drowned on a field trip last summer, police said Thursday as the boy’s family expressed relief at the development.
Fifteen-year-old Jeremiah Perry was on the trip to Algonquin Provincial Park with other students from Toronto’s C.W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute last July when he went for an evening swim and disappeared underwater. His body was found by a police underwater rescue unit the next day.
Nicholas Mills, who taught at the school, was charged Wednesday with criminal negligence causing death, said Ontario Provincial Police Const. Catherine Yarmel.
The 54-year-old teacher from Caledon, Ont., was responsible for co-ordinating the trip, Yarmel said.