Ontario family behind luxury vacation rentals and allegedly rundown group homes

One of the biggest names in privately-run foster care and group homes in Ontario operates homes that, workers say, are falling apart and neglect kids in need. Meanwhile, a Global News and APTN investigation found that the family behind the group homes operates another business — offering luxurious vacation rentals with “all the spoils of the good life.”

Liam Smith, who entered the child welfare system as a teenager, is speaking out about his time at Connor Homes, a privately-run group home operator in Ontario, where he says he was mistreated and neglected to the point he no longer wanted to live.

Former workers say Connor Homes was “just money-focused” and cut costs anywhere it could. The whistleblowers say kids were neglected, mistreated and worse off after they left.

And an examination of Connor Homes’ finances raises questions about how much money the owners take as a cut of their private, for-profit foster care and group home business — and how much money is leftover for kids and foster parents. Among the documents analyzed by Global News and APTN were divorce court records, which revealed one of the leaders of Connor Homes, Sean Connor, was making an estimated $200k per year from his affiliated foster care business.

Global’s Carolyn Jarvis reports.

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