Canadian detective who investigated vaccine deaths found guilty

Ottawa Police Detective Helen Grus has been found guilty of “discreditable conduct” after she investigated a possible link between vaccination and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

SIDS is when the death of an infant less than a year old cannot be explained even after an investigation, autopsy, and medical review. Law enforcement — usually officers assigned to child abuse units, as Grus was — are tasked with investigating sudden infant deaths to rule out foul play. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 3,400 babies die of SIDS each year in the United States. Though the bewildering condition is reported as “rare,” it is also considered the leading cause of death among infants.

Constable Grus, an officer with an exemplary record who received letters of commendation from the public, began her investigation after noticing a sudden cluster of nine SIDS cases in 2021. She accessed the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) database and started contacting the parents of the deceased infants to inquire about the mothers’ vaccination statuses. She also allegedly contacted the coroner’s office to determine if the mothers had been vaccinated with the COVID-19 injections. One of the key factors in Grus’ investigation was Pfizer’s own postmarketing analysis conducted six months after the vaccine rollout, which found that roughly 10% of vaccinated pregnancies ended in fetal or neonatal death.

A directive against discussing vaccines

After media outlets reported that Grus was investigating vaccine deaths, she was suspended for misconduct because she had not been formally assigned to investigate them. Disciplinary hearings began in August 2022, and on Tuesday, Hearing Officer Chris Renwick found Grus guilty of “discreditable conduct” for accessing records that did not relate to any investigation she had been assigned to.

“A reasonable person would conclude that Det. Grus misused the authority of her position and work related access to the personal medical information stored within a police RMS databank system to advance a position on a topic that was known to be divisive and controversial, despite a strongly held personal conviction that it was in the public’s interests as public COVID policy was putting infants at risk,” Renwick wrote in his report.

Renwick noted that, according to Grus’ lawyer Bath Sheba van den Berg, Grus felt she could not approach her immediate superiors about the link between SIDS and the COVID shots because there was a directive not to discuss vaccines within the Sexual Assault and Child Abuse (SACA) Unit. Instead, Grus began preparing an information packet to share with higher-ups who she hoped would authorize her to investigate the vaccine deaths—but she was suspended before she could do so.

‘A dark day for justice’

Former Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Forensic Investigator Vincent Gircys slammed Renwick’s decision as a “dark day for justice.”

“Following a three year long Disciplinary trial against Detective Helen Grus of the Ottawa Police Service, the verdict is now in,” Gircys wrote on X. “The overwhelming political pressure, intentional failure to accept expert medical testimony during these proceedings and the failure of OPS to investigate the forensic evidence that would have proven the officers hypothesis has led the hearing officer to render a Guilty verdict on a single count of Discreditable Conduct against the officer asking questions.  

“The message delivered is loud and clear. In Canada, political pressure will suppress the Rule of Law in matters that conflict, expose or question dangerous Governmental policies. This historical decision is a pivotal moment and a dark day for Justice as the consequences are far reaching.”