WARNING: This story contains details of abuse.
Richard Perry, 65, still has scars from abuse he said he suffered at the Immaculata Elementary day school more than 50 years ago — abuse he alleges the RCMP failed to fully investigate because he is Indigenous.
“We got hit all the time for not talking ‘right’, not doing things right,” he told the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal this week at a hearing in Burns Lake, B.C., more than 900 kilometres north of Vancouver and 220 kilometres northwest of Prince George.
The panel was in the community from May 1-12 to hear testimony from Perry and other former students, who recounted stories of physical and sexual
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