The 115-page report details how systems meant to educate, protect vulnerable children continue to fail young people in the city
Copies of a special report on the death of fifteen year old Tina Fontaine released by Daphne Penrose, the Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth, are pictured at the release event for the special report on the death of Tina Fontaine at the Sagkeeng Mino Pimatiziwin Family Treatment Centre on the Sagkeeng First Nation, Man. on March 12, 2019.
“What’s at stake are the lives of children. What’s at stake is that children are going to die if we don’t make changes,” Ms. Penrose said as she released her report on the Sagkeeng First Nation, 115 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg, of which Tina was a member. “They are going to die in this way if we don’t get resources for them to access.”
No one has ever been convicted of a crime in connection with Tina’s disappearance and death. Last February, a jury acquitted Raymond Cormier of second-degree murder.Tears roll down the cheeks of Thelma Favel, Tina Fontaine's great-aunt and the woman who raised her, during a march in February, 2018, the day after the jury delivered a not-guilty verdict in the 2nd degree murder trial of Raymond Cormier.Ms.
The picture that emerges over the 115-page report is of a jurisdictional mess, with Tina’s child welfare file being passed back and forth among the five separate agencies involved in her case during her life. From the notes made by social workers Ms.
Her grief “grew and expanded until it began to manifest in difficulty at school, experimentation with drugs and alcohol, running away, increasing violence, and being sexually exploited by adult men who preyed on her,” the report said.But she was never provided a single counselling session or cultural healing services after his death, “despite ongoing assessments and recommendations that this was a critical need in her life,” Ms. Penrose wrote.
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