Suicide, addiction and domestic violence: One woman’s life highlights a broken system – APTN News
February 21, 2018
Along the shores of Manitoba’s Island Lake region rests the remote community of St. Theresa Point First Nation. Located 465 km from Winnipeg, the community of 4,500 is only accessible by plane or winter roads.
It is here where Helena Wood called home for most of her life. It is here where the 39-year-old married her high school sweetheart and the two started a family. And, it is here where her first-born died by suicide eight years ago.
Helena was 16-years-old when she gave birth to her first daughter Cassandra Wood. She would later go on to marry Cassandra’s father once she turned 18.
Five years ago the two divorced. APTN has decided not to publish the father’s name.
