Three of Karl Wesley McKay’s children and his ex-wife have won an interim order blocking disclosure of their names at the ongoing inquiry into Phoenix Sinclair’s death and her involvement in the provincial child-welfare system.
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A Winnipeg Child and Family Services supervisor approved closing Phoenix Sinclair’s case one final, fateful time despite the child’s young age, her mother’s horrendous history with CFS and the fact child-welfare workers never saw the girl during an agency probe of allegations she was being locked up and abused by her mom.
Samantha Kematch used a “disguised compliance” tactic to pull the wool over the eyes of Manitoba Child and Family Services workers checking on the welfare of the toddler she would end up murdering, a report tabled at a public inquiry into Phoenix Sinclair’s death states.
“This is an inquiry and an inquiry we must now
proceed to do with all possible diligence”: Ted
Hughes.
The troubled upbringing of Phoenix Sinclair’s birth mother was under the microscope at Day Two of the public inquiry into the five-year-old’s tragic death.
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