'My heart shattered': mother to testify at First Nations student deaths inquest
CBC News | Posted: November 3, 2015 2:00 PM | Last Updated: November 6, 2015
Jethro Anderson, 15, died in 2000
The First Nations student deaths inquest in Thunder Bay, Ont. resumed Tuesday morning with testimony from Stella Anderson. Her son Jethro was 15-years-old when he died in 2000.
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.
Anderson, who was from Kasabonika Lake First Nation, died in the same year that the First Nations high school in Thunder Bay was opened. His body, like that of four other students, was found in a river.
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"The day that Jethro's body was found and I heard the news, my heart shattered into a million pieces," Anderson said in a statement released before the inquest started.
She was scheduled to testify Monday afternoon, but Toronto-based lawyers from various parties with standing at the inquest were unable to fly into Thunder Bay because of bad weather.
The inquest is expected to continue until March, 2016.
Here is a look at the some of the proceedings from the CBC reporter in the courtroom.