B.C.'s Children And Youth Representative Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond: Investigation

Turpel-Lafond Dept: B.C.'s Children and Youth Representative Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond's said on Thursday that she launched a special investigation into the case after learning the charges had been stayed in 2010, according to CBC. According to Turpel-Lafond's report, the child came to Canada with her family as a refugee in 2005 and social workers began working with the family two years later after her father tried to take her out of school. This is an unacceptable outcome that contributed to the suffering of an entire family, B.C.'s Representative for Children and Youth Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond and child sex abuse charges against a father were stayed by a B.C. court because of unreasonable delays getting the family's statements to police translated, according to B.C.'s children's advocate. The incident is one of a rising number of cases that have been stayed due to unreasonable court delays. In 2011 judges stayed 109 cases due to delays, almost double the number from 2010. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.