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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 07:24:20 -0500
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From: Lynne Moss-Sharman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Tsuu T'ina reserve: inquest Connie & Ty Jacobs
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Thursday, March 25, 1999
Children eating off floor
By NOVA PIERSON, CALGARY SUN
TSUU T'INA NATION -- A fire chief yesterday told of seeing
Connie Jacobs' children eating off the floor and crawling through
broken glass.
And he said Ty Jacobs, who would shortly die alongside his
mother, had an aura of sadness about him.
Chief Chris Bigplume told a fatality inquiry yesterday the Jacobs
house was in a "terrible state of disarray."
That prompted Bigplume to ask social workers to come to the
house -- where a Mountie later shot back at Connie, killing her
and her son Ty, 9.
And he said his wife's offer to take the children until the house
could be cleaned up was refused by Connie.
"One of (the children) was trying to eat off the floor and they
were asking for something to eat constantly while we were there,"
said Bigplume.
The fire chief went to the house March 22, 1998 to help Calgary
Emergency Medical Services after a domestic dispute left
Connie's husband Hardy with a gash above his eye.
Bigplume, whose wife Tanya talked to Connie while he tended to
Hardy, said in his five years with the fire department the house
was in the worst state he'd seen.
"I have never seen a house with those conditions before on the
reserve," said Bigplume, 25.
"I believe I described it as being very unkept -- unsuitable for
children. There were bits of glass, things, all over the floor.
"The children didn't have clothes, just diapers, and they were
crawling around on the floor."
Bigplume called his mother, who alerted social workers.
Okotoks RCMP Const. Dave Voller, later responded to help
them and tribal Const. Tammy Dodginghorse take the children,
and traded fire with Connie, 37.
"My wife had offered to take the children for the day until
something could be done with the house and Connie refused," he
said.
Ty seemed saddened when he answered the door for Bigplume,
the chief said.
"He didn't say anything, he just turned around. Just the look in his
eyes -- he seemed sad."
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1957 G.H. Estabrooks, Creator
of the Manchurian Candidate
born New Brunswick
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