WARNING: This story contains potentially distressing details about experiences at Federal Indian Day Schools
Survivors of a northern British Columbia day school who claim RCMP mishandled the investigation into their allegations of historic abuse will have their complaint heard by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal starting Monday, more than a decade after the original investigation was closed.
In 2012, survivors from the Burns Lake First Nation and Lake Babine Indian Band brought allegations of historic physical, emotional and sexual abuse at the former Immaculata Day School in Burns Lake to Prince George RCMP, who closed the investigation without criminal charges.
Six of the survivors filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission in 2017, alleging systemic racism and conflicts of interest.
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