First Nations student deaths inquest: Boarding home parent testifies
'Nobody was concerned,' aunt tells court after Jethro Anderson, 15, went missing in Thunder Bay
The court proceedings Wednesday have focused on 15-year-old Jethro Anderson. The teen was staying with his aunt, Dora Morris, when he disappeared in 2000. Anderson's body was later found in the Kaministiquia River.
The inquest, which began in October, is looking into the deaths of seven young people who died after coming to the city for school from remote First Nations communities.
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His mother testified Tuesday that she helped chose where her teenage son would stay in the city.
Evidence about Anderson's death is scheduled for the rest of this week at the inquest.
Here is a look at the some of the proceedings from the CBC reporter in the courtroom. Tweets are in chronological order beginning at the bottom of the page.
Presiding coroner asks whether searchers were wearing life jackets. 'They didn't give us any equipment' Anderson says <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterAnderson says he held Jethro's body for about half an hour before fire fighters came with a stretcher in their own boat <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter'I couldn't sleep for 2 days,' after finding Jethro, Anderson says. He pulled him out of the water, face down <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter'I felt something and we kind of panicked,' Anderson says. 'No other boats were around to help' <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterAnderson says searchers borrowed boats, found Jethro's body after about 1.5 hours on the water <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterAnderson says it was his idea to search the river 'where the seagulls were landing' <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterMorely Anderson, from Kasabonika Lake First Nation now on the stand. He helped find Jethro's body <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterPresiding coroner asks if there was 'anything from [Jethro] that he was planning to kill himself' Morris: no, never. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterPresiding coroner asks if there was 'anything from [Jethro] that he was planning to kill himself' Morris: no, never. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterMorris says 'he was walking home & someone hit him'. Coroner interrupts. Morris: 'I just want to tell them how police were' <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterMorris says when she picked her boy up police said he was intoxicated. When she took him home his head was caked with blood. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterMorris says she called police to see if her son was in lock-up. They said no. Then next morning he called from police station <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterMorris: 'I had an incident w/my own son. He was hit on the back of the head with a beer bottle.' He was 17. He didn't come home. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter'I don't know if they told them anything,' Morris says <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterPolice lawyer asks 'while he was like a son to you, police had to notify the actual parents' are you aware of this? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter'I need to tell them this' Morris says, 'regarding the police.' Presiding coroner says stops her, says she has to answers lawyer q's <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterPolice missing persons report says Jethro 'drinks alcohol'. Morris says 'I couldn't lie about that' he came home drunk 1 time <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterPolice lwyr suggests Morris did not call police on morning after Jethro disappeared 'I did call <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/tbay?src=hash">#tbay</a> police, that 684 #,' she says <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterMorris: 'I had responsibility for his well-being and for him attending school It's no easy task looking after someone else's child' <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterWhen Morris' asked abt taking Jethro as a boarding student 'I was kind of hesitant b/c of him using alcohol, then he just showed up' <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterPolice lawyer questions Morris about Jethro running awy when he was 13, gone for 3 days. Morris doesn't remember reporting to police <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter'I do know that he wanted to stay on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/tbay?src=hash">#tbay</a>,' Morris says. 'He just liked staying with us.' <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterAboriginal Affairs lawyer asks Morris about a statement she made to OPP about Jethro not wanting to go home to Kasabonika <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterCourt security goes to get witness, trapped outside as courthouse closes for the night. Inquest sits this evening. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterMorris says boarding home parents should treat students 'as their own', says she still calls her own brdg home parents mom and dad. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterMorris says after Jethro died, an elder came to visit and smudged her home. 'I'll never forget what he did for me,' she says crying <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterMorris says she was not aware of other options when she had to deal with concerns about police. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterAll agree this is acceptable question. Jury returns. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterAboriginal Affairs lawyer suggests asking Morris if she was aware of other options she had to pursue her concerns about police. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter'This jury already has a very formidable task ahead of it,' Gover says. 'We have to engage in a cost-benefit analysis' <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterPolice lawyer Brian Gover says it's not true that all witnesses have 'crisis of confidence' with police. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterFalconer says it's possible the jury may want to issue a recommendation for public eduction on how to file complaints about police <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter'NAN lawyer Julian Falconer says. 'Can't ignore fact people didn't feel they had a remedy' to their concerns about police <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterNishnawbe Aski Nation lawyer says he supports effort to ask witnesses about their 'crisis of confidence' with <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/tbay?src=hash">#tbay</a> police <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterPresiding coroner Dr. Eden says he wants Bryson to explain how that is relevant to the scope of the inquest. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterBryson says she would like the independent police review director to attend phase 2 of inquest to help with recommendations <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterLawyer Chantelle Bryson interrupted by presiding coroner as she asks question about Morris' complaint to police. Jury excused. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterMorris says she saw Jethro's body at the funeral home says he had bruise, 3 inches wide, from forehead to top of his head <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterMorris: 'I said sure doesn't take you long to get here. It sure took you a long time to help me. Then they kind of apologized.' <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterMonths later, Morris says she withdrew her complaint, says police were at her door in minutes w/ the paperwork <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterMorris filed a complaint about they way <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/tbay?src=hash">#tbay</a> police responded to her calls about Jethro. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter'I don't think I want to be a boarding parent anymore,' Morris says, although she has a great-nephew staying with her now. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter'I never got answers,' Morris says. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter'I never believed he died from drowning, especially after seeing those contusions,' Morrris says. 'Something weird was happening.' <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter'I asked (police) about the marks on his face. They said debris. It looked like cigarette burns,' Morris says <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter'I asked them (police) about the contusion on Jethro's head. They said he fell. How could he fall straight down,' Morris says <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterPolice 'are there to help and protect and all I got were negative comments about our people,' Morris says <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter'He's just out there partying like any other Native kid, those are the comments I got from <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/tbay?src=hash">#tbay</a> police,' Morris says <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterMorris says when she first called police about her concerns about Jethro, police said it was too early for missing persons report <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterMorris says the curfew set out by Northern Nishnawbe Education Council of 10 pm weeknights, 12 wknds, was 'too late' she set her own <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterMorris says she was called to school Nov. 11, told her own kids not to get hopes up 'I already knew what the news was going to be' <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter'I just had a feeling he's in the river,' Morris says. 'I went there every day, twice a day until he was found' <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter'I was really close to my nephew, we all were. He was like a son to me. He called me mom too,' Morris says through tears <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter'No one was believing me he was gone. I wanted police to drag the river because I believed he was in the river,' Morris says, crying <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter2 days before Jethro's body was found Morris says she was called to the school to identify a hat police had in a bag <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterMorris says she went to the school to tell Jethro's teachers he was missing. 'Nobody offered to help. Nobody was concerned.' <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterMorris is crying, lawyer apologizes for difficult q's. Morris: 'That's okay. I don't want this to happen again for anybody else' <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter'We never stopped searching,' Morris said. 'We never got any info. from police. Whenever I called they just said no right away' <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterMorris says she called police Sun am 'never did like their responses, they didn't put notice he went missing until a week after' <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter'We even went on private property,' Morris says, starting to cry. 'We never found anything' <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterStudents who have testified earlier have called the Kam River heritage park 'the waterfront' <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter'People kept saying he went to the waterfront,' Morris said. 'We didn't know where the waterfront was' <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterJethro wasn't home by 11 pm that night so Morris and her husband began driving around looking for him until 3 a.m. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterMorris says Jethro and her son left home about 2:30 pm the day Jethro disappeared to go to the mall. She gave them $2.50 for a treat <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterMorris enrolled another student who stayed with her in hockey to 'settle him down'. 'He was a good hockey player' <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterMorris says she had a niece stay with her who was also 'dealing with alcohol', she bought the girl a guitar 'to keep her busy' <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterMorris says she 'wasn't too keen' on Jethro coming to live with her for school in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/tbay?src=hash">#tbay</a> because he was 'dealing with alcohol' <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterMorris also looked after Anderson for about 6 months when he was 8 yrs old, says he was shy, 'happy when he felt at home' <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterDora Morris now taking the stand. She was Jethro Anderson's boarding parent the year he died, also his aunt <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter'Do you want your kids to come out for high school?' lawyer asks. Skunk answers: 'I guess so. I don't have a choice.' <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterChantelle asked about how she felt after Jethro died, says she can't remember, turns from remote testimony camera, rubs eyes <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter'I always had a hard time at school wherever I went,' Chantelle says. 'I was always lonely for home.'
—@cbcreporterChantelle says she was very homesick while she was away at school, didn't care about the rules b/c punishment was going home <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterIn her police statement Chantelle said her sister hit Jethro in the face, but Chantelle says she doesn't remember that now <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterChantelle says she wasn't given time to go through her statements to police before testifying today <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterThe next day 'people kept coming to us and asking about him, so we started looking around too,'@<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter'I kind of blacked out,' Chantelle says of the end of the night when Jethro Anderson was last seen alive in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/tbay?src=hash">#tbay</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterChantelle says celebration of her 16th birthday that night included peer pressure to finish a 2-litre bottle of wine cooler <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter'It was just like a 1-night thing I ended up with him that night. We weren't really boyfriend and girlfriend,' Chantelle says <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter'I'm trying to remember, trying my best to help you,' Chantelle says <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterJethro's mom and aunt are now sitting in the front row, talking quietly every so often while Chantelle testifies <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter'I can't remember a lot,' Chantelle says when asked about her statements to police in 2000 and then in 2012 for the inquest <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter'I was always drunk, me,' Chantelle says with a small laugh. 'So I don't really remember' <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter'I didn't really know my own way around,' Chantelle says. 'I just followed' <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter'He asked me 'can you drink me up' and then followed the girls to the boardwalk, Chantelle says <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterChantelle says she & some other girls were walking around, drinking coolers and 'feeling buzzed' before they met Jethro at bus stop <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterChantelle says she only talked to Jethro Anderson twice before the Saturday night he disappeared <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterThe sisters were placed in separate boarding homes in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/tbay?src=hash">#tbay</a>, which was 'scary, living far apart', Chantelle says <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter'I was kind of scared,' Chantelle says of coming to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/tbay?src=hash">#tbay</a> from Mishkeegogamang to high school. There is no high school in Mish. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterChantelle says she 'didn't last that long' at Dennis Franklin Cromarty high school in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/tbay?src=hash">#tbay</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterNext witness: Chantelle Skunk, Roberta's younger sister, both were with Jethro Anderson the night he disappeared. She was 16 then <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterInquest will sit this evening to fit in testimony of Jethro Anderson's aunt, who was also his boarding home parent <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterLots of questions to Skunk about statement she made to police 15 years ago, answers 'I don't remember' to a lot of them <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterSkunk is now a parent of 4 kids, oldest is 10. 'If they let it be my decision, they would stay home' for high school, she says. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter'It was at the Water Street terminal, teenagers drove by, throwing slushies', Skunk says, doesn't remember what they yelled <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterLike other students who have testified Skunk recounts incident of having drinks thrown at her from passing car <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterSkunk is asked 'is it possible there was a fight between you and Jethro that night?' Answer: 'I don't think so.' <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterSkunk says she thinks the note about Jethro being beaten up was found in her boarding home <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterGBS 'was just like a summer thing here in Mish. It didn't go that far. After that I didn't bother with those girls anymore' : Skunk <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterThe note police had about Jethro being beat up referenced 'GBS', the Ghetto Blood Sisters, family's lawyer says, questioning Skunk <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterSocial life for First Nations students was 'being out and about, going from bus to bus, going to the mall,' Skunk says <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterSkunk says she didn't write the note, doesn't know who did and didn't see Jethro being beaten up, nor did she beat him up <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterCoroner's counsel asks Skunk about note police had that said 'someone is starting to feel bad about beating [Jethro] up' <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterSkunk says when Jethro didn't turn up she, her sister and some friends 'went looking, asking around for him' <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterScreen in courtroom for remote testimony says 'Smart Budget Software'. Audio so weak, lawyer clarifying every sentence <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter'The first one to run off was Jethro,' Skunk says. The others hid from police behind a garbage can. She never saw Jethro again 2/2 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterSkunk says the students were leaving the Kam River park when they saw headlights they thought were 'the cops'. 1/2 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter'He was drinking but I don't know if he was drunk, drunk,' Skunk says of Jethro. 'We started sharing our beer with him' <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter'We were just trying to find a place to drink, I guess,' Skunk says. 'We had the really big bottles of beer' <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterSkunk says she and her sister Chantelle, Jethro Anderson and Noah Sutherland went to the 'the waterfront near Simpson street' <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter'We'd already started by the time we met up with him,' Skunk says. 'I was buzzing.' <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter'We didn't have a plan,' Skunk says. 'We were drinking though'. Skunk was 18 at the time, Jethro was 15 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterSkunk says she was with Jethro on the night he disappeared, Oct. 28, 2000. She saw him at Brodie St. bus terminal <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterSkunk attended Dennis Franklin Cromarty high school in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/tbay?src=hash">#tbay</a> during the time Jethro Anderson also attended <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporterInquest begins with testimony from Roberta Skunk, from Mishkeegogamang First Nation. She's testifying via video link <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbctb?src=hash">#cbctb</a>
—@cbcreporter