![]() Oliva Dionne fought a nine-year battle to regain custody of his children. ![]() Dionne, a dirt-poor farmer before the birth of the quints, died in 1979.Īs the first quintuplets on record to survive more than a few days, the infant girls were taken from their parents and made wards of the Ontario government, which turned them into what the Canadian Encyclopedia calls a "$500 million asset to the province." Three million people trekked to "Quintland" in North Bay in northern Ontario to watch the babies at play behind a one-way screen. ![]() The five girls were born May 28, 1934, in Corbeil, Ontario, near the Quebec border, to Elzire Dionne and her husband, Oliva. Jean-Yves Soucy, a Montreal writer who was co-author with the three sisters, said, "This is a story not just of sexual abuse, but harassment and physical and verbal power abuse." "These women are completely destroyed psychologically," she said. The interviewer, Denise Bombardier, said she found the revelations "apocalyptic." ![]()
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