It’s about time’ to address cycle of sexual abuse in First Nations: B.C. frontline worker – CBC

‘Quite often’ victims are family members, said Laurel Collins with B.C.’s Justice Education Society

Dec 08, 2016

A frontline worker helping Northern B.C. First Nations communities says focused action to deal with sexual abuse on reserves is long overdue.

“I think that for some of the reserves the stats of sexual assaults are much higher than we’d ever want to understand or know,” Laurel Collins told CBC’s Daybreak North host Robert Doane.

As a program coordinator with B.C.’s Justice Education Society, she travels to reserves across the province talking to Indigenous peoples about sexual abuse, exploitation and molestation.

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