‘So heinous:’ Manitoba chief says healing needed after girl’s killer sentenced
WINNIPEG — A Manitoba grand chief says a remote northern First Nation is still healing after the gruesome killing of an 11-year-old girl.
A boy, who is now 17, was sentenced on Monday to 10 years for first-degree murder in the 2015 death of Teresa Robinson. He cannot be identified under Canada’s youth justice laws.
Sheila North Wilson, grand chief of Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak which represents northern First Nations, said the murder traumatized many people from the Garden Hill community, about 600 kilometres north of Winnipeg.
“I don’t know if everything will ever be back to normal,” North Wilson said. “I think we saw as a country what happens when we don’t support young people in communities like that.”