Province looking at changes after cop seemingly dismisses girl’s sexual assault report

VICTORIA (NEWS 1130) — The province is trying to figure out how it can better help survivors of sexual violence after video of a Kelowna Mountie showed him seemingly dismissing an Indigenous girl’s assault report.

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Minister of Children and Family Development Katrine Conroy says while there’s no solid plans, she’s asked the director of Child Welfare to look into the video and see what changes can be made.

“When something like that happens to young people, especially young Indigenous women, it’s sickening, it’s horrible,” she says.

“From my perspective, the whole situation is really sickening, it’s horrific, it shouldn’t happen. It makes me speechless in some ways because it was so horrific.”

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The 2012 video shows the officer interviewing the girl for two hours and asking her if she was “turned on” during the alleged assault and questioning how hard she resisted her attacker.

The girl was in the care of the B.C. child welfare system at the time and the video was released as part of a civil suit against Conroy’s Ministry of Child and Family Development.

No charges were ever laid.

– With files from Liza Yuzda

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