He remembers his father's rage.
Years before Jason Roberts became a promising Canadian Paralympic athlete, his dad would arrive home after long, tough days at his construction job and start verbally abusing his young son. The taunts, the insults became more ferocious each day.
Then, the harsh words turned into physical battering — sometimes resulting in trips to the hospital for Jason. He remembers suffering a broken leg. But there was nobody to reach out to. He was living in Grenada, and his mother, Veronica, had moved to Canada to work at a hotel in Toronto in hopes of starting a new life for the family.
Finally, after yet another hospital visit, a doctor delivered the bad news: Young Jason, about 12 at the time, had suffered a brain injury because of repeated head trauma. …show more content…
By the time he finally escaped the situation and joined his mother in Canada, Jason had balance issues — similar to symptoms experienced by people with Cerebral Palsy — and mental concerns he incurred from his father's
Years before Jason Roberts became a promising Canadian Paralympic athlete, his dad would arrive home after long, tough days at his construction job and start verbally abusing his young son. The taunts, the insults became more ferocious each day.
Then, the harsh words turned into physical battering — sometimes resulting in trips to the hospital for Jason. He remembers suffering a broken leg. But there was nobody to reach out to. He was living in Grenada, and his mother, Veronica, had moved to Canada to work at a hotel in Toronto in hopes of starting a new life for the family.
Finally, after yet another hospital visit, a doctor delivered the bad news: Young Jason, about 12 at the time, had suffered a brain injury because of repeated head trauma. …show more content…
By the time he finally escaped the situation and joined his mother in Canada, Jason had balance issues — similar to symptoms experienced by people with Cerebral Palsy — and mental concerns he incurred from his father's