An RCMP investigator says a 10-year-old boy who killed a younger child on a southern Saskatchewan reserve had a troubled childhood, including 28 interactions with police.
Cpl. Donna Zawislak is testifying at an inquest into the death of six-year-old Lee Bonneau, who was found with head injuries in a wooded area on the Kahkewistahaw reserve in 2013.
She told a coroner’s inquest that the boy was the subject of complaints including inappropriate sexual behaviour, animal cruelty and break and enters.
He also witnessed a theft and an aggravated assault.
Bonneau was last seen walking with an older boy outside the reserve’s recreation complex while his foster mother was playing bingo.
Saskatchewan’s children’s advocate determined the boy who killed Bonneau had behavioural issues and probably shouldn’t have been in the community unsupervised.
(The Canadian Press)