Emergency shelters are supposed to be stopgap measures for child welfare in Manitoba. But people involved say the province's strained system is leaning too heavily on them, putting vulnerable kids at risk as they grow up in shelters with little supervision from under-trained workers.
A 14-year-old girl killed in a daytime stabbing in downtown Winnipeg last week fell through the cracks of a system that was supposed to help her, advocates say.
A Winnipeg judge last week condemned a system that left a vulnerable 14-year-old girl without the housing supports she needed after her release from custody. A day later, the girl was dead.