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Indigenous teen’s treatment while disclosing abuse indicative of ‘pattern’
OTTAWA — B.C.’s former child representative Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond says the “heinous” treatment of an Indigenous teenager during a 2012 interrogation by an RCMP officer reflects a pattern she has seen over and over.
In recent days, politicians have expressed outrage after APTN published a video of a male officer asking pointed questions of a young woman describing a sexual assault she said she experienced in the B.C. foster-care system.
“Were you at all turned on during this at all, even a little bit?” the officer can be heard saying in the video.