Canada - Tina Fontaine, 15, found dead in Red River, Winnipeg, 8 Aug 2014
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Jury finds Raymond Cormier not guilty in death of Tina Fontaine
Trial lasted just over 3 weeks, defence did not call any evidence
Feb 22, 2018 4:29 PM CT Last Updated: Feb 22, 2018 5:35 PM CT
Full article:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/raymond-cormier-trial-verdict-tina-fontaine-1.4542319
Trial lasted just over 3 weeks, defence did not call any evidence
Feb 22, 2018 4:29 PM CT Last Updated: Feb 22, 2018 5:35 PM CT
Full article:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/raymond-cormier-trial-verdict-tina-fontaine-1.4542319
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https://ipolitics.ca/2018/02/23/ottawa-protest-spills-streets-wake-verdict-tina-fontaine-case/
If you search Tina Fontain Ottawa on fb there is a live video of this. Very emotional.
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If you search Tina Fontain Ottawa on fb there is a live video of this. Very emotional.
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Published on Feb 23, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwr8KtqDyWE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwr8KtqDyWE
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Beautiful, what a wonderful idea!
The mural shows Tina Fontaine near a lake, with a flock of birds in flight at her side. (Jaison Empson/CBC)
"Larry Sharpe, the vice-principal of the school, said the mural, by Indigenous artist Shawna Grapentine, was a way to honour the teen, a member of nearby Sagkeeng First Nation, and all other missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
"I think it's important that, if we want people to acknowledge something as important as missing and murdered Indigenous women, that we have to do [it] at the school level. We have to do at the community level," Sharpe said.
"And so I thought here would be a good place to start."
Children's advocate to release report on Tina Fontaine's death
March 12 2019
"The Manitoba children’s advocate is to release a highly-anticipated report Tuesday detailing the investigation into the death of a First Nations teen whose body was found in the Red River."
"Favel remembers Tina as kind, funny and healthy, weighing more than 100 pounds when she left for the city. Her body weighed 72 pounds when it was pulled from the river."
"During the second-degree murder trial for Raymond Cormier — the man acquitted last year in Tina’s death — court heard details about what happened in the weeks after she left the First Nation.
The teenager was placed in a hotel by social workers. She spent time on the streets and was sexually exploited. She was also treated at a hospital, interacted with police and called 911."
March 12 2019
"The Manitoba children’s advocate is to release a highly-anticipated report Tuesday detailing the investigation into the death of a First Nations teen whose body was found in the Red River."
"Favel remembers Tina as kind, funny and healthy, weighing more than 100 pounds when she left for the city. Her body weighed 72 pounds when it was pulled from the river."
"During the second-degree murder trial for Raymond Cormier — the man acquitted last year in Tina’s death — court heard details about what happened in the weeks after she left the First Nation.
The teenager was placed in a hotel by social workers. She spent time on the streets and was sexually exploited. She was also treated at a hospital, interacted with police and called 911."
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Thanks Dotr, I came to post.
So upsetting to read this.
Poor kid.
Tina Fontaine asked social workers for help before she died: advocate
So upsetting to read this.
Poor kid.
Tina Fontaine asked social workers for help before she died: advocate
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'She was everything to me': Tina Fontaine's tragic death prompts call for change
Thelma Favel still keeps her grandniece Tina Fontaine’s room exactly the way she left it more than six years ago.
“I don’t even want to touch anything in here, like to paint it, because this was her room,” Favel said.
“She was everything to me.”
Favel cared for Fontaine for most of the 15-year-old’s life. She took her in after Fontaine’s father was diagnosed with cancer. He was later beaten to death.
Fontaine went missing in July 2014, after leaving for a visit to see her mother in Winnipeg.
“She asked me if she can go spend a week … with their mom. I told her, ‘If your grades go up’,” Favel said. “She kept up her end of the bargain. So I had to.”
“And she said, ‘I’ll see you in a week’… That’s the last I ever spoke to Tina.”
In August of that year, Fontaine’s body was found wrapped in plastic and a duvet cover in Winnipeg’s Red River.
After a year-and-a-half investigation, police arrested and charged Raymond Cormier, 53, with second-degree murder. In February 2018, a jury found him not guilty.
After the trial ended, more than 1,000 people marched for change in honour of Fontaine. Her death led to renewed calls for a national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women.
Favel still talks to Tina everyday through a big picture of her hanging in her living room.
“I get up in the morning. I say, ‘Good morning, my baby.’ And when I go to bed at night, I’ll say, ‘Good night. I’ll see you in the morning.'”
“To me she’s not really gone. She lives in my heart. And she’ll always be alive,” Favel said.
According to a report into Fontaine’s death, the teen asked for help in the weeks before she was found dead in the Red River, but social agencies told her there were no beds available.
The report by Manitoba children’s advocate, Daphne Penrose, said that essentially left Fontaine homeless and at risk for sexual exploitation.
The child advocate’s report also looked into the sexual exploitation of the province’s youth — something Penrose said Manitoba has a “shameful reputation for.”
Penrose made five recommendations, which she said need to be acted on quickly because children and youth are still facing the same risks and getting the same responses as Fontaine.
Thelma Favel still keeps her grandniece Tina Fontaine’s room exactly the way she left it more than six years ago.
“I don’t even want to touch anything in here, like to paint it, because this was her room,” Favel said.
“She was everything to me.”
Favel cared for Fontaine for most of the 15-year-old’s life. She took her in after Fontaine’s father was diagnosed with cancer. He was later beaten to death.
Fontaine went missing in July 2014, after leaving for a visit to see her mother in Winnipeg.
“She asked me if she can go spend a week … with their mom. I told her, ‘If your grades go up’,” Favel said. “She kept up her end of the bargain. So I had to.”
“And she said, ‘I’ll see you in a week’… That’s the last I ever spoke to Tina.”
In August of that year, Fontaine’s body was found wrapped in plastic and a duvet cover in Winnipeg’s Red River.
After a year-and-a-half investigation, police arrested and charged Raymond Cormier, 53, with second-degree murder. In February 2018, a jury found him not guilty.
After the trial ended, more than 1,000 people marched for change in honour of Fontaine. Her death led to renewed calls for a national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women.
Favel still talks to Tina everyday through a big picture of her hanging in her living room.
“I get up in the morning. I say, ‘Good morning, my baby.’ And when I go to bed at night, I’ll say, ‘Good night. I’ll see you in the morning.'”
“To me she’s not really gone. She lives in my heart. And she’ll always be alive,” Favel said.
According to a report into Fontaine’s death, the teen asked for help in the weeks before she was found dead in the Red River, but social agencies told her there were no beds available.
The report by Manitoba children’s advocate, Daphne Penrose, said that essentially left Fontaine homeless and at risk for sexual exploitation.
The child advocate’s report also looked into the sexual exploitation of the province’s youth — something Penrose said Manitoba has a “shameful reputation for.”
Penrose made five recommendations, which she said need to be acted on quickly because children and youth are still facing the same risks and getting the same responses as Fontaine.
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Man acquitted in Tina Fontaine murder found dead, says her aunt | Globalnews.ca
Raymond Cormier, a career criminal and the man police believed killed Tina Fontaine, has reportedly died and “took all the answers with him” said Fontaine’s aunt Thelma Favel.
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‘He took the truth with him’: Man acquitted in Tina Fontaine’s death found dead in Ontario
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For nearly a decade, Thelma Favel has kept the curtains in her living room closed.It stops her from looking out the window and waiting for her grand-niece Tina Fontaine to come home.Tina was from Sagkeeng Anicinabe Nation, 120 km north of Winnipeg, where Favel still lives today. Her body was discovered in Winnipeg’s Red River on Aug. 17, 2014, wrapped in plastic and a duvet cover. She has been reported missing on July 17, 2014.She was just 15 years old.Read more: https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news.
Aug 10 '24
Tina Fontaine was just 15 years old when her 72-pound body was found in the Red River near the Alexander Docks in downtown Winnipeg wrapped in plastic and a duvet cover and weighed down by rocks, on the afternoon of Aug. 17, 2014. Photo by handout
''Saturday marks the 10-year anniversary of the day it’s believed the girl from Sagkeeng Anicinabe Nation died.
Elroy Fontaine plans to honour the day by hosting a candlelight vigil where Tina’s body was discovered.''
’Not forgotten’: Family, advocates reflect 10 years after death of Tina Fontaine
When Elroy Fontaine thinks about his older sister, Tina Fontaine, his mind takes him to a park in Winnipeg's Point Douglas neighbourhood.
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’Not forgotten’: Family, advocates reflect 10 years after death of Tina Fontaine
When Elroy Fontaine thinks about his older sister, Tina Fontaine, his mind takes him to a park in Winnipeg's Point Douglas neighbourhood.
Tina Fontaine was just 15 years old when her 72-pound body was found in the Red River near the Alexander Docks in downtown Winnipeg wrapped in plastic and a duvet cover and weighed down by rocks, on the afternoon of Aug. 17, 2014. Photo by handout
''Saturday marks the 10-year anniversary of the day it’s believed the girl from Sagkeeng Anicinabe Nation died.
Elroy Fontaine plans to honour the day by hosting a candlelight vigil where Tina’s body was discovered.''