The father of a six-year-old boy who was killed by an older child on a reserve in southern Saskatchewan says Social Services didn’t involve him in decisions made around his son’s custody.
Dave Bonneau testified today at a coroner’s inquest into the death of Lee Bonneau, who was found with head injuries in a wooded area on the Kahkewistahaw reserve in 2013.
He was last seen walking with an older boy outside the reserve’s recreation complex while his foster mother was playing bingo.
Bonneau says the system is faulty and left him in the dark when it came to parental services agreements that his former partner signed.
Saskatchewan’s children’s advocate determined that the 10-year-old boy who killed Bonneau had behavioural issues and probably shouldn’t have been in the community unsupervised.
Because he was under 12, he could not be charged under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
(The Canadian Press)