Jeffrey Baldwin (January 20, 1997 – November 30, 2002) was a Canadian child whose death from septic shock and bacterial pneumonia after years of mistreatment by his grandparents, Elva Bottineau and Norman Kidman, led to significant changes in policy by children's aid societies in the granting of custody of children to relatives.
On April 28, 1998, he and his older sister were taken by the Catholic Children's Aid Society, after allegations of abuse were levelled against their parents.
However, a background check had not been done on the grandparents, and it was later discovered that Elva Bottineau had been previously convicted of child abuse in 1970, after her five-month-old daughter Eva died of pneumonia, and was found to have had numerous fractures.
According to later court testimony, Jeffrey and his sister were kept in a locked room at night with furnace vents shut, and when released, were forced to eat with their hands from a mat on the floor.
The judge was told that the pair used the children as a source of income, collecting government support checks while offering little in return.