Loretta Saunders, Her Unborn Child And Bill C-484

Tragically, the body of Loretta Saunders, of Newfoundland & Labrador, was found this week in New Brunswick.

Saunders’ aunt, Barb Coffey, said the full impact of the horrific crime likely won’t sink in until Saunders is brought back home to Labrador. Saunders, who was a student at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, is from Happy Valley-Goose Bay.

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Saunders, 26, was researching missing and murdered aboriginal women for a thesis and was to graduate this spring.  She intended to become a lawyer with a focus on aboriginal justice.

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Saunders, who also was connected to Hopedale, disappeared Feb. 13. This week, police found her body and charged a man and a woman with murder. 

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She was three months pregnant.

Yes, horrific. Two precious and unique individuals became victims in that senseless act of murder but the trial will altogether ignore one of the human beings killed.

A remedy of justice would have been provided by Bill C-484 but, alas, Canadians were too paranoid about maintaining the rights of mothers themselves to kill their unborn children to take action on this bill in 2008.

RIP Loretta and child.

Justice Demanded for Rehtaeh Parsons UPDATED!

How important is justice? When a heinous crime has been committed, particularly a crime resulting in the death of a fellow human being, it seems that all of nature—and even heaven—cries out for repair.

More so, it seems, when a face of innocence and beauty is placed upon the victim and when we as citizens begin to identify with the victim and family on a personal level.

This could be my daughter. How heart wrenching. The parents left behind could be my wife and me.

Something must be done. The criminals must pay, we insist.

Nova Scotia’s justice minister decried the use of vigilante justice on Wednesday after an anonymous “hacktivist” group threatened to name the four boys involved in the alleged gang rape of a Halifax teenager who later killed herself.

Rehtaeh Parsons, 17, was removed from life support on Sunday after hanging herself last Thursday. Her mother, Leah, says her daughter was bullied mercilessly after four boys sexually assaulted her in 2011 and then circulated a photo of the attack.

Full article here…

But what about when the victims don’t have a face, a name and a past?

UPDATED!

RCMP reopens Parsons case 'in light of new information'