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June 17 2022
winnipeg.ctvnews.ca

92-year-old charged following investigation into historic sexual abuse at Manitoba residential school

Manitoba RCMP have charged a 92-year-old Winnipeg man in connection with alleged sexual abuse that happened at a residential school more than 50 years ago.
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''WARNING: This story contains details that are disturbing.

Manitoba RCMP have charged a 92-year-old Winnipeg man in connection with alleged sexual abuse that happened at a residential school more than 50 years ago.

Retired Father Arthur Masse of Winnipeg was arrested on Thursday and charged with one count of indecent assault in connection with an allegation of sexual abuse that is said to have happened at Fort Alexander Residential School.

RCMP said the alleged incident occurred between 1968 and 1970, and involved a 10-year-old female student at the school.

The charge has not been proven in court.

Masse was released with conditions and will appear in court in Powerview, Man. on July 20.

RCMP received the tip about the alleged abuse in February 2010, with an official investigation beginning in 2011.

The school was opened in 1905 in the community of Fort Alexander, which later became Sagkeeng First Nation, and closed in 1970.

The Indian Residential Schools Resolution Health Support Program has a hotline to help residential school survivors and their relatives suffering from trauma invoked by the recall of past abuse. The number is 1-866-925-4419.

This is a developing story. More details to come.''

With files from The Canadian Press
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winnipeg.ctvnews.ca

Trial of retired Winnipeg priest charged with indecent assault wraps up

Closing arguments have wrapped up in the trial of retired 93-year-old priest Arthur Masse.
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Intriguing initiative...
torontosun.com

Experts at finding Guatemala's 'disappeared' offer to help with First Nations’ residential school searches

'No one is going to treat (searches) with as much respect and dignity, and for as long as it takes to do it, like First Nations people. It's the most dignified way'
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''OTTAWA — A Guatemala-based forensic anthropology organization is extending its hand to Indigenous Peoples in Canada looking to potentially recover remains of children on the grounds of former residential schools''.

''Fredy Peccerelli, a founding member of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation, has been working for nearly 30 years to bring home bodies of the “disappeared” — Maya civilians who were killed during the 36-year civil war in Guatemala that ended in 1996.''

He said his first thought was that First Nations should develop an independent Indigenous-led forensics team similar to his organization’s.

“No one is going to treat (searches) with as much respect and dignity, and for as long as it takes to do it, like First Nations people,” said Peccerelli. “It’s the most dignified way.”

He added that his group has worked with others in Mexico and Rwanda to train people on how to collect DNA, excavate graves and repatriate remains.

It is willing to do the same in Canada.

Peccerelli isn’t the only person to say that Indigenous actors should be at the forefront of searches for children’s remains.''
 
What bothers me are those individuals who say that if there is lack of bodies that means residential schools weren't involved in any criminal behavior, that they were all victims of the times, children and church personnel alike. What gets me more than anything is the casual disregard they had for these children. Whether any of them succumbed to beatings, sexual assault, or worse, it was the lack of compassion, treating them like numbers. Whether they died of tuberculosis, measles, diphtheria or any other reason, falls, fights, etc. they were buried anonymously and the family were not advised of their deaths. They didn't matter.

I used to work for the OPP and one day I was walking around the grounds of the former Orillia Psychiatric Hospital and found a marker for an anonymous boy who died. It was buried in the ground, and only had a first name on it. I'm sure he was one of those kids who probably was severely intellectually delayed and shipped off to the hospital and forgotten by not only the residential workers but his own family.

The native parents of those kids who never home didn't forget about their kids.
 
Sep 30; '24
www.thestar.com

National ceremony in Ottawa will mark Truth and Reconciliation Day

OTTAWA - A National Day for Truth and Reconciliation ceremony is planned in Ottawa this afternoon to honour the survivors of Canada's residential school system and the children who never
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National ceremony in Ottawa will mark Truth and Reconciliation Day


People take part in a march on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Montreal, Saturday, September 30, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
GMH
 
branmuffin said:
What bothers me are those individuals who say that if there is lack of bodies that means residential schools weren't involved in any criminal behavior, that they were all victims of the times, children and church personnel alike. What gets me more than anything is the casual disregard they had for these children. Whether any of them succumbed to beatings, sexual assault, or worse, it was the lack of compassion, treating them like numbers. Whether they died of tuberculosis, measles, diphtheria or any other reason, falls, fights, etc. they were buried anonymously and the family were not advised of their deaths. They didn't matter.

I used to work for the OPP and one day I was walking around the grounds of the former Orillia Psychiatric Hospital and found a marker for an anonymous boy who died. It was buried in the ground, and only had a first name on it. I'm sure he was one of those kids who probably was severely intellectually delayed and shipped off to the hospital and forgotten by not only the residential workers but his own family.

The native parents of those kids who never home didn't forget about their kids.
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Who ran these residential "schools"? I feel like this is comparable to the Taum babies.
 
tarabull said:
www.vancouverislandfreedaily.com

Finding his voice: Esquimalt man speaks out on horrors of residential school

Mark Atleo (Kiikitakashuaa) is a survivor of the Alberni Indian Residential School
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Thanks for posting this, tarabull. It's very moving.

I didn't know what emoji to put on your post: Angry for all the abuse or Sad for same plus hearing him speak or Love for his painting of the fish and having had one teacher at residential school - the art teacher - of whom he has good recollections. I'd put it this way: the art teacher got him in touch with pre-trauma resilience from his days at home with his parents and other family mbrs before residential school. Plus: Love because he was able to follow his dream and become a fisherman.

Tho having a Love emoji after that post would be inappropriate because of all the pain and sadness in his account. I'm glad he found some resilience and got back in touch with what had been before he was taken, but none of that erases the terrible crimes committed on him, his brother and so many other First Nation children.
 
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