Mohammad Shafia: Rona Amir Mohammad

Batshaw Youth And Family Centres Dept: "Honour killings are not something that youth protection systems typically work with," said Madelaine Berard, the director of youth protection at Batshaw Youth and Family Centres, which dealt with the Shafia family in 2008, according to Vancouver Sun. On Sunday, a Kingston jury found Mohammad Shafia, his second wife Tooba Mohammad Yahya and their son, Hamed, guilty of first-degree murder in the deaths of the couple's three daughters, Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13, and of Shafia's first wife, Rona Amir Mohammad, 52 and the killings of three Montreal siblings and a female relative has spurred a Montreal youth protection agency to step up efforts to educate its staff about cultures where honour crimes are practised. "We have to get our heads more sensitized to this and learn better skills to understand and work with these families so we can engage them." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.