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RSS FeedsDrugs at 4 months. Sexual abuse as a child. Now he fights to keep the monster inside
(The Star Toronto Raptors)

 
 

14 october 2017 14:08:47

 
Drugs at 4 months. Sexual abuse as a child. Now he fights to keep the monster inside
(The Star Toronto Raptors)
 


WHITEHORSE-His mother puts the painkillers in the 4-month-old´s milk bottle to stop his crying and make him sleep. And he does - so quietly that she may have forgotten he was even there. She disappears that December night in 1978 and never comes back.By the time his grandparents find him, the infant is alone, unconscious, the codeine eating through his stomach lining.The emergency surgery in Edmonton marks the beginning of 39-year-old Gabriel Smarch´s 2,000-page government case history.The pages tell a story of repeated failures to keep a vulnerable child safe. Throughout his life, Gabriel asked for help, telling social workers, foster parents, nurses and doctors what was happening to him. He was ignored or not believed over and over again.Read more:Why is the Yukon government quietly settling lawsuits alleging sex abuse by a former school principal?By the time he says his school principal, a man identified in court documents only as `J.V.`, raped him as an 8-year-old, the trajectory of Gabriel´s life seemed irreversible.It´s also the story of a victim becoming a violent abuser, a cycle that is far too common in communities like the Kwanlin Dün First Nation in Whitehorse - communities still grappling with the intergenerational trauma of Canada´s colonial violence.Indigenous children are drastically overrepresented in the foster care and youth justice systems. Nearly 70 per cent of 161 clients that the Yukon Child Advocate´s Office dealt with in 2015-16 are Indigenous, and the vast majority of those are child welfare cases.`Many of the children we work with are intergenerational survivors of residential schools,` said Annette King, the territory´s child advocate.Gabriel shared his entire history with the Star because he wants people to understand the cycles of abuse he was caught up in, and how they continue today.Gabriel is 6 years oldHis family is large. Housing is cramped. The extended family lives sometimes three or four to a room, with siblings, cousins ...


 
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