‘Tired of people being coddled’: Mother of Winnipeg murder victim fed up with system

The parent of a antheral who was stabbed to decease astatine a Winnipeg room successful 2022 says she doesn’t cognize however to determination on, arsenic each time brings caller headlines astir convulsive transgression successful the city.

Tania Cayer’s lad Tyree was stabbed to decease astatine the Millennium Library successful December of that year, and though the 4 younker suspects — who ranged successful property from 14-16 astatine the clip of the execution — were arrested and charged, Cayer says she’s mislaid each religion successful the justness strategy implicit the ensuing years.

One of the teens progressive successful Tyree’s decease was charged with second-degree murder, portion the different 3 were charged with manslaughter, but Cayer said going done the tribunal process was difficult, arsenic she had to perceive to radical effort to warrant the reasons wherefore the accused were successful a concern wherever they would perpetrate a homicide.

“I’ve made a implicit displacement conscionable arsenic a quality being — archetypal and foremost arsenic a mother,” Cayer told Global Winnipeg.

“As a mother, to woody with the feelings I person toward different mother’s children is hard enough… trying to beryllium knowing of them being children. The younker justness strategy is simply a failure… everything is astir rehabilitating and making these radical amended and privation to beryllium amended and bash better.

“(But) erstwhile they reoffend, which they do, past what happens? They inactive get to spell backmost and enactment successful their specialized programs… I’m bushed of radical being coddled.”

Cayer said her beingness has been changed forever, and that she feels victims’ families aren’t decently understood erstwhile it comes to convulsive crimes similar this.

Her frustrations travel aft a drawstring of convulsive crimes successful Winnipeg, galore involving youth. Two weeks ago, a 17-year-old miss was arrested for a machete onslaught extracurricular a precocious school. And past week, 3 younker aged 12 to 14 were arrested and charged for a random BB weapon shooting successful the bosom of downtown Winnipeg.

Those who enactment with the susceptible younker population, similar Ken Dueck, the enforcement manager of Inner City Youth Alive, accidental the systems are swamped.

“We interest there’s not capable programming for younker that are incarcerated. We besides spot erstwhile younker are released, they are often released into nary support,” Dueck said.

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Daniel Hidalgo, the laminitis of CommUNITY204, agrees.

“One of the biggest and much important things is to not enactment them successful the aforesaid identical that led them to marque the choices that they made. It’s important to place the gaps they are experiencing and uncovering ways to enactment that,” Hidalgo said.

Hidalgo adding that wraparound supports tin besides lend to a teen’s semipermanent success.

Meanwhile, Dueck notes that rehabilitation is simply a large challenge. If younker don’t look consequences, it’s hard to interruption the cycle.

“We person to rethink prison. We person to marque it astir restoration and we person to rethink the programming that we person successful prison,” Dueck said.

They’re each things that Cayer is pleading for, truthful nary different genitor has to spell done what she’s experiencing.

“The things that victims and their families person to spell through, cipher truly knows the story,” she said.

“Your loved ones effort their champion to enactment you, but your loved ones don’t cognize however to woody with this. I’m broken, I’m not the aforesaid idiosyncratic I was.

“I spell to enactment and I crawl backmost successful a hole. That’s wherever I exist. I don’t cognize however to get past this. I’ve tried, I’ve mislaid jobs implicit it. I don’t cognize however to determination guardant successful life.”