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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 07:54:31 -0400
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From: Lynne Moss-Sharman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Tsuu T'ina: CONNIE & TY JACOBS
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Wednesday, June 16, 1999
Power questioned
Social worker in Jacobs case defends ability
By NOVA PIERSON, CALGARY SUN
TSUU T'INA NATION -- A child welfare worker maintained
she had the power to take children from a nation home, even
though her education didn't meet job qualifications and her
paperwork had lapsed.
Connie Bish -- on the stand at the Jacobs fatality inquiry
yesterday -- was one of the Tsuu T'ina Child and Family Services
workers who tried to take Connie Jacobs' children March 22,
1998.
But Connie, 37, brought out a gun and minutes later she and son
Ty, 9, died when she exchanged fire with a Mountie who arrived
to help the women take Jacobs' four children and two
grandchildren.
While Bish -- under examination by Ed Onusko, the lawyer who
represents Connie's family -- said the job required a diploma she
didn't have, but she argued her 20 years of social work
experience was enough to qualify her.
"(The Tsuu T'ina Child and Family Services board) felt I met the
requirements to be a child welfare case worker," Bish said.
"I seem to have met them because they hired me."
And Bish said the fact her provincially designated power to
apprehend children had lapsed was simply a paperwork
oversight by her boss.
"In my mind I had the designated power," said Bish. "It was the
paperwork and it wasn't my responsibility to do that."
Bish accompanied her director Loraine Duguay that evening to
do what she said was "an investigation" into the home, after
learning Connie had assaulted her husband Hardy that day and
that both had been drinking.
Both Bish and Duguay have said the other was in charge.
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