Published Tuesday, March 12, 2019 12:26PM EDTSAGKEENG FIRST NATION, Man. -- Manitoba's children's advocate says an Indigenous teenager was left homeless and at risk for sexual exploitation when she asked social agencies for help in the weeks before she was found dead in a river but was told there were no beds available.
“At times, particularly in the final months of her life, some of these services were unavailable, not easily accessible, or ill-co-ordinated, which did not provide the supports and interventions she desperately needed.” The girl's body was found wrapped in a duvet cover and weighed down by rocks in the Red River that August.Her death renewed calls for a national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and inspired volunteer groups such as the Bear Clan Patrol, an Indigenous-led neighbourhood watch group.“Every system failed her,” Thelma Favel, Tina's great-aunt who raised her, said after Penrose delivered the report to her before it was officially released.
Favel remembers Tina as kind, funny and healthy, weighing more than 100 pounds when she left for the city. Her body weighed 72 pounds when it was pulled from the river.
Where was her family? Where was her neighbours? Where was her community? Where was her community leaders? What the hell did the leadership of Sagkeeng do to help her? What a feckless, useless bunch of people.
Shake my head! Should have never happened but of course only certain people matter 🙄
Canada, look at yourself. You are a shame of a first world nation to let something like this happen. Shame.
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