DUFFERIN COUNTY - The Ontario Provincial Police have charged Kaden Young's mother in connection with the three-year-old's drowning death earlier this year.

Michelle Hanson, 35, has been charged with impaired driving causing death, dangerous driving causing death, and criminal negligence causing death. Police announced the charges Thursday.

The OPP said on Feb. 21 at approximately 12:52 a.m., a minivan was travelling southbound on the 10th Line of Amaranth Township when the driver failed to stop at a road closure sign and the vehicle was swept into the Grand River.

The three year-old was lost in the fast-flowing water and his body was recovered on April 21.

Hanson is scheduled to appear in an Orangeville court on Nov. 6.

Police said they will not comment on specific details of the allegations to protect the integrity of ensuing court process.