It was a Friday night in mid-April, during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, when Marie Tripp noticed her 89-year-old mother was vomiting in her bed at the Orchard Villa long-term care home in Pickering, Ont.Tripp was watching her mother Mary Walsh through a camera she had installed in her room in 2019, after she suspected that something seemed off at the facility.
For instance, Tripp noticed bruising on her mother’s forearms, which she was told was due to improper transferring. Before that, she said her mother’s hair went unwashed for about two-and-half months.“I needed to know what was going on,” Tripp told Global News Radio 640 Toronto. “I just didn’t want to catch anybody doing anything.