A mother’s closure: Inside the foster home where Kanina Sue Turtle died by suicide
It’s a foster home Barbara Suggashie could never go in – until this week.
Child Welfare
‘What am I going to say in that room?’ Mother to visit foster home where daughter died by suicide
Barbara Suggashie is walking 320 kilometres to the foster home in Sioux Lookout where her daughter Kanina Sue Turtle took her own life. As she walks, Suggashie is wondering what she is going to say when she gets to the home.
Kanina Sue Turtle’s mom on a walk for closure that ends in room where daughter died
It’s about 314 kilometres from Red Lake to Sioux Lookout, where Kanina died.
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