Lawyer says 'thousands' of B.C. children neglected or abused in foster care, launches lawsuit
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“I thought I was safe. I really, truly did," are the emotional words of a woman whose traumatic experience in the foster care system in B.C. left her forever changed.
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“I thought I was safe. I really, truly did.”
They are the emotional words of a woman whose traumatic experience in the foster care system in B.C. left her forever changed.
“To this day, I sleep with a knife under my bed,” she said, explaining she has also taken self-defence classes.
CTV News is not using her real name, but ‘Dawn,’ now 53, is part of a proposed class action lawsuit against the Ministry of Children and Family Development.
“You could write a horror show about what’s happened to some of these children,” said Dawn’s lawyer, Scott Stanley of Murphy Battista.
“It would be enough to curdle the stomach of every British Columbian who has any sense of a moral conscious,” he continued.
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