Indigenous sexual abuse likely to dominate inquiry into murdered, missing women
OTTAWA — Sharon Acoose remembers being groped as a child by an uncle who paid her in pocket change for her trouble — the earliest roots of a life scarred by sex work, drug use and jail time.
“He would give me a quarter … or a nickel or a dime, whatever he had,” Acoose, 63, recalled during an interview with The Canadian Press.
“You wouldn’t believe all the candies that I bought.”
Despite the longest of odds, she managed to turn her life around, eventually becoming a professor of social work. Countless others who followed a similar trajectory are no longer alive to tell the tale.