Rock garden in memory of four-year-old killed in Laval daycare bus attack
Posted August 17, 2023 5:30 pm.
The grieving mother of a four-year-old boy, one of the two children killed when a bus crashed into a daycare in Laval, on February 8, has found a unique way to remember her son.
On social media, Marie-Christine Cloutier shared that she has decorated a trail in memory of her son, Jacob Gauthier.
The four-year-old boy loved the trail in question and liked, according to his mother’s post, to go there when possible.
In her publication, which she has since made private, Cloutier shared her sadness and invited others to join her in placing “rocks painted with love” to the trail.
(CREDIT: Martin Daigle, CityNews Image)
(CREDIT: Martin Daigle, CityNews Image)
You can bring your own painted rock to add to the trail in Jacob’s memory
The trail has about 100 painted rocks so far.
“When words are not enough… May these little stone steps take you as far as our love takes you,” reads a sign not far from the painted rocks.
People who wish to add a rock or simply commemorate the memory of the young boy will find the trail in question between rue des Patriotes and rue Dufferin in Old Sainte-Rose.
(CREDIT: Martin Daigle, CityNews Image)
(CREDIT: Martin Daigle, CityNews Image)
(CREDIT: Martin Daigle, CityNews Image)
The parents of Maëva David, the second child who was killed in the Laval daycare bus crash, say she was a “ray of sunshine who loved life.”
The child was identified in a letter sent by her parents to various francophone media outlets on Feb. 13.
They wrote she was “bursting with energy” but also capable of “profound attention and calm.”
The alleged bus attack at Garderie Educative Sainte-Rose left six other children with injuries.
The Laval bus driver who was arrested in the Feb. 8 incident, Pierre Ny St-Amand, was the subject of a psychiatric evaluation which remains under seal. He is due back in court on August 22.
