The boy weighed just 28.8 kilograms when he died on Maof a traumatic brain injury. They were forced to eat feces and vomit and drink urine. The children were punched, kicked, hit with belts and pieces of wood. The video cameras in the Fraser Valley foster home captured the suffering inflicted on the boy, 11 and his younger sister. Something was definitely wrong.” 'INCREDIBLY TRAGIC' “Had someone done a video chat with this child, they would clearly see with this child something was wrong. “The photos I saw from grandma - beautiful boy, beautiful boy,” Petri said. “He was skin and bones, his face was collapsing on himself,” Petri explained. Petri said photos of what the boy used to look like, compared to the images captured on surveillance cameras inside the foster home, show a dramatic change in the child’s appearance. The child victims are both indigenous as are the foster parents who can’t be named because of a court ban to protect the identity of the children. He represented the foster mom who also supports an inquiry. We have to give voice to this young child,” said Derwin Petri. Last week, the former foster parents were s entenced in a Chilliwack court to ten years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter and aggravated assault.īut a defence lawyer for one of those convicted said there needs to be more accountability for what happened. Warning: This story contins descriptions of child abuseĬalls are growing for a public inquiry into the deeply troubling and horrific abuse of two children in foster care and ultimately, the death of one of them.
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