Six Nations mother looking to create ‘Heather’s Law’ after daughter’s death – APTN News
Mar 23, 2022
Francine Shimizu sits in her living room in St. Catharines, Ont., next to a collage of her daughter, Heather Winterstein.
“This is actually my favourite picture because it’s me and Heather and underneath this thing here, ‘It says my mom is pretty’,” Shimizu tells APTN News.
“It’s nice that she thought of me that way.”
The grieving mother says the collage helps her memories to flow.
“She had a really good sense of humour, she always put things into perspective for me in a very funny kind of way,” says Shimizu, who is a nurse.
It was on Dec. 9, 2021, that Winterstein, 24, went to St. Catherines General Hospital because she didn’t feel well. Her mother believes her daughter’s complaint wasn’t taken seriously because she was Indigenous.
Winterstein was prescribed Tylenol and took the bus to her father’s house to sleep. But when her father arrived home there was a problem.
