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True Crime Brewery

Just a Girl: The Life and Death of Tina Fontaine

True Crime Brewery

Tiegrabber Podcasts

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

The story of Tina Fontaine’s life belongs to her and her family, but it parallels many others in Indigenous communities.  Her struggle for stability, the promises not kept, and the sexual exploitation she endured meant that Tina experienced more trauma and pain than most people could imagine. Because of situations beyond her control, Tina needed […]

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0:00.0

True Crime Brewery contains disturbing content related to real life crimes.

0:05.0

Medical information is opinion based on facts of a crime and should not be interpreted as medical advice or treatment.

0:12.0

listener discretion is advised. Welcome to True Crime Brewery. I'm Jill. And I'm Dick.

0:28.0

This story of Tina Fontaine's life belongs to her and her family, but it parallels many others in the indigenous communities.

0:38.0

Her struggle for stability, the promises not kept, and the sexual exploitation she endured meant that

0:46.1

Tina experienced more trauma and pain than most people could even imagine.

0:51.4

Because of situations beyond her control, Tina needed housing, health and educational

0:57.1

services that were not easily accessed.

1:00.3

In the last years of her life, poverty, homelessness, and drug use led her into life-threatening situations on an almost daily basis.

1:09.0

All of this by the time she was 15 years old. Today at the quiet end we're telling

1:15.1

Tina's story. After all, Tina was just a girl. She was a girl with hopes and

1:20.4

dreams just like our daughters. But Tina was left vulnerable to dangerous

1:25.1

predators. Why was no one able or willing to protect and defend her? Let's talk

1:32.0

about it. And what do we have for a beer?

1:35.0

I'm copying out a little bit. The beer is a beer from Quebec, not from the Western provinces.

1:40.0

But I like the name of the beer, La Fin de Mon, the end of the world. I thought it was fitting for this tale and I truthfully haven't been able to get some samples of beers from the Western part of Canada.

1:54.4

So, the Fin Dumond it is.

1:56.7

It's brewed by Unabrew in Chambley, Quebec, Canada.

2:01.2

It's a Belgian triple. A little weighty at 9% alcohol by volume. Very, very nice beer. Cloudy yellow, small

2:09.4

white head. Maybe a hint of lace.

2:13.0

Spice and fruit aroma, taste with citrus fruit, a little more spice, tangy spice, and it's kind of warming

2:20.0

as you drank it.

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