In a legal first, a Quebec Court judge has awarded cash compensation of $25,000 to a 19-year-old Inuk woman who was forgotten by the youth protection (DPJ) officials responsible for her care for nearly 15 years.
In the judgment, rendered last November but only made public this week, Judge Peggy Warolin acknowledged there’s no legal precedent for her decision.
“The court concludes that this financial compensation, although imperfect, is the only possible option to correct the injury situation experienced by this teenager for so many years,” Warolin said.
What term can be strong enough to qualify the total absence of followup during all these years? Her situation was completely
