Slain Teen’s Family Looking for Answers After Acquittal

Slain Teen’s Family Looking for Answers After Acquittal
Indigenous women sing and drum during a rally for Tina Fontaine in Vancouver on Feb. 24, 2018. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck
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SAGKEENG FIRST NATION, Man.—Thelma Favel woke up every morning before going to the Winnipeg courthouse, looked around her room and wondered what her grand-niece might have thought when she stayed in the same hotel in her final weeks alive.

During the second-degree murder trial for Raymond Cormier, the man acquitted last month of killing Tina Fontaine, Favel wanted to put herself in the teenage girl’s shoes.