KEY DATES IN A COMIC’S TRAGIC STORY
SEPT. 4, 2003: Tony Rosato (now 53) meets his future wife Leah (née Murray, now 30) in Toronto at a coffee shop.
OCT. 6: Rosato and Leah have their first date, in Toronto. After that, he visits her in Kingston. NOV. 30: They are engaged. DEC. 31: They get married at Toronto City Hall, a first marriage for both. Leah continues to live in Kingston and Rosato lives in Toronto with his mother, visiting Leah in Kingston most weekends.
SEPT. 4, 2004: They move into an apartment on Broadview Ave.
SEPT. 26: A daughter is born.
JAN. 17, 2005: Leah flees their Toronto apartment for Kingston, with their daughter.
JAN. 17: Rosato files a missing-person report with Toronto police.
FEB. 2: Rosato files an affidavit for custody of his daughter.
FEB. 3: Leah is granted interim sole custody of their daughter.
MAR. 9: Rosato files a missing-person report with Kingston police.
MAR. 10: He tells Det. Jeff Smith in Kingston his wife was replaced during the wedding reception.
MAR. 20: Rosato has the first of two access visits with his child, whom he says is suffering physical and emotional abuse.
MAR. 20: Rosato has the first of two access visits with his child, whom he says is suffering physical and emotional abuse.
APR. 15: Rosato tells the Children’s Aid Society in Kingston he was presented with a baby who is not his. He wants a probe into his missing wife and daughter.
APR. 18: Rosato phones Smith to talk about visitations and tells him the baby was replaced.
APR. 20: Smith phones to ask Rosato to come to Kingston to talk.
MAY 5: Leah gives Det. Smith her affidavit.
MAY 5: After several postponements, Rosato goes to Kingston to talk to Smith. He is arrested for criminal harassment, and public mischief for bothering police. Rosato is sent to Quinte Detention Centre in Napanee, where he’s held for two years.
MAY 5: After several postponements, Rosato goes to Kingston to talk to Smith. He is arrested for criminal harassment, and public mischief for bothering police. Rosato is sent to Quinte Detention Centre in Napanee, where he’s held for two years.
AUG. 10: Rosato has a bail hearing before Kingston Justice of the Peace Cathy Hickling.
MAR. 15-16, 2006: At a preliminary hearing, Justice R.G. Masse drops the mischief charge.
AUG. 7, 2007: Rosato’s trial on the charge of criminally harassing his wife begins before Justice Gordon Thomson of the Superior Court of Justice, in Kingston.