The disappearing children of Constance Lake: Kerri-Lynn Bunting
‘I need to tell people how it is now … it’s just like, my world is ripped apart.’
Kenneth Jackson
Kenneth is a journalist with nearly two decades of reporting experience who focuses on crime and social issues, including child welfare and wrongful convictions. He has worked out of APTN’s Ottawa bureau since October 2012.
The disappearing children of Constance Lake and the woman trying to find them
‘I speak for them, the children that cannot speak, I speak for them.’
High-risk youth abruptly removed from Weechi foster home despite counsellor’s objection
Removal happened day after foster mom appeared in APTN story on Weechi
Runaway in Barrie: Breakdown in Weechi foster home sends youth 1,600 KM away
‘Auntie … I can’t go back there. Don’t make me go back there’
First Nations child kept in care for two years after customary care agreement expired
Child welfare agency worker caught on recording saying five times there was an agreement
Helping Daniel: A caregiver’s two-year journey to heal her broken ‘son’
“He complains to me about pain, about back pain, I can see him compensating.”
Deformed youth demands proof child welfare agency has authority to keep him in foster care
Records indicate additional members of his family have congenital anomalies
First Nations youth in care likely deformed for life, blames child welfare agency
Even today the youth, 14, is having difficult time getting help from Weechi-it-te-win Family Services
‘No guts’: Experts weigh-in on Ontario government’s proposed child welfare overhaul
‘I don’t see the fundamental changes needed to keep young people safe’