And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 07:37:35 -0500
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Lynne Moss-Sharman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Squamish First Nation: 500 children at risk?
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Thursday, March 11, 1999
B.C. ministry says native
children may be at risk
Kathy Tait
The Province
British Columbia's ministry for children and families
is looking into 50
cases where social workers and others allege children
of the
Squamish First Nation near Vancouver have been or are
at risk.
Sources say the ministry investigation centres on
Squamish-area and
North Vancouver native children left at risk because of
decisions
made by the Squamish Nation's child and family service
agency.
The Squamish Nation is one of 120 of B.C.'s 197 native
bands
currently at some stage of attaining full
responsibility for child
welfare.
According to sources, cases being investigated include:
- Numerous sexual assaults of native children,
including two foster
children repeatedly sexually assaulted in foster homes.
- Children living with their mother's boyfriend who has
sexually
molested them.
- Foster homes where foster parents are known to deal
drugs,
including cocaine, placing their own and foster kids at
risk.
About 2,800 adults and children are members of the
Squamish
Nation. All but 400 live on reserves.
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