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Mother. Sister. Daughter. – CBC

by ahnationtalk on June 5, 2023250 Views

Jun. 5, 2023

WARNING: This story contains distressing details.

Carissa Chaput was just 14 and in foster care when she was recruited from the streets of Winnipeg and trafficked by others to support their drug habit.

She was 15 when police finally rescued her. Child welfare workers, she said, had given up on her.

“They didn’t tell me why it took so long to find me. I was apparently too hard to handle so they just kind of gave up,” said Chaput.

“I was a very troubled little girl. But I had a heart and I’m a human being. I didn’t deserve any of that.”

Carissa Chaput, and thousands of other Indigenous women and girls like her, are the very reason that four years ago, the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls gave Canadians 231 calls for justice — legally mandated directives to stop the violence against Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people.