QUEBEC
CTV News Montreal
December 1, 2017
The inquiry into murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls has wrapped up its first week of testimony in Quebec.
Dozens of families travelled to the Innu community of Mani-Utenam near Sept-Iles to share their emotional stories, many opening up about allegations of rape, murder, and harassment at the hands of police.
Before the hearings got underway Friday, one woman presented commissioners with a gift of moccasins, mittens, and a baby bottle to represent the lost girls of her community.
The commission heard testimony from the mother of an Innu teenager who was kidnapped and tortured in 2011. She recounted how police dismissed the disappearance as a runaway case.
Commissioners heard from a mother whose five-year-old daughter was taken from her in the early 1080s and given to a family. That girl was raped and murdered.
There were also stories of abuse at the hands of a Catholic priest who worked on the north shore for decades.
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