E8: Every Child Matters
Kuper Island
CBC
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
The team tracks down the last person to ever see Richard Thomas alive at Kuper Island Residential School. Donnie Sampson was just 10 years old at the time and has disturbing memories of the day — that include a familiar and problematic name from the past. Host Duncan McCue takes the results of the investigation back to Richard’s sister Belvie who must decide what to do next. In Penelakut, the community rallies around their children — the new generation, the adult survivors still healing, and all the ones who never came home. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/kuper-island-transcripts-listen-1.6622551
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| 0:00.0 | This is a very strange and frustrating story to have your family members stolen and murdered then missing. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Connie Walker and this is missing and murdered, finding Cleo. |
| 0:13.0 | It's such a mystery, such an impossible task. |
| 0:17.0 | Please, help us find him. |
| 0:20.0 | Finding Cleo. |
| 0:22.0 | If you'd like to hear more, you can find the full season wherever you get your |
| 0:26.1 | podcasts. |
| 0:27.1 | This is a CBC podcast. |
| 0:35.0 | Before we start, this is a podcast about Canada's Indian residential schools |
| 0:39.0 | and it contains descriptions of sexual violence, suicide, and abuse. |
| 0:44.2 | If you need support, you can find information |
| 0:46.5 | about where to turn for help at cebec. C.A. |
| 0:49.2 | Keeper Island. |
| 0:55.0 | Every child matters. That's the slogan that's come to represent a movement |
| 0:58.0 | to acknowledge the damage done by the residential school system. |
| 1:01.0 | In this podcast, you've heard one child's name over and over, |
| 1:05.3 | Richard Thomas, the boy who died at the Cooper Island School who so many wanted us |
| 1:11.3 | to know about. Here's the official version of how he died. |
| 1:16.0 | On June 2, 1966, he's last seen by the oblates at breakfast. It's not until late that night they realize he's missing. |
| 1:25.6 | Then two oblates find Richard hanging in the gym. Police are called in and conclude it was a suicide. |
| 1:34.0 | During the investigation, police interview three of his classmates. |
| 1:38.0 | Two of those boys have since passed away, |
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