The mother of 16-year-old Jannai Dopwell-Bailey, who was stabbed outside his school in October, says she and her family are still struggling to get therapy to process their grief.
The day he died, Monday, Oct. 18, 2021, replays in Charla Dopwell’s mind over and over, and over again.
“Sometimes I can’t focus. Sometimes my mind is just on my son,” the mother said in the family’s apartment in Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood.
She’d just finished working a double shift that afternoon last fall as a patient attendant at a seniors’ home in Côte-Saint-Luc and was thinking about Jannai.
How she’d finally get to spend time with
