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How low will they go?

When Richard and Kari Klassen returned home to Outlook Friday evening, having spent two days in Saskatoon at the pretrial conference, a card was stuck in their door from Social Services. Their children, Brady 12 and Kayla, 13 informed them that a Social worker had been to school and had interviewed them. Her name is Erin Srigley.

Update: The Klassen family had to wait until Monday morning to speak with the supervisor. After a conversation by telephone between Richard Klassen, the social worker and her supervisor, the matter was resolved.

Kayla has provided injusticebusters with the following statement:

May 3rd 2003.

A social worker came to my school on Friday and wanted to talk to me. The Social workers name was Erin, I can't remember the last name. She asked me questions about how often my parents were at home. She asked me where my dad worked and what the phone numbers were to the office, and my dads cell phone number and stuff.

I told her that my mom and dad are home sometimes but not all the time, and that we come to the office sometimes (Ang's place). I told her that I usually hang out with my friends, and stuff like that.

I felt uncomfortable when she was asking me all these questions, but I never asked if my mom and dad could be there with me. She did not ask me if I wanted them there when she talked to me. She asked me where my parents where, and I told her they were in Saskatoon. She asked me when they were coming back and I told her they would be home Friday night, and that my Grandpa Larson stays with us when they are not home.

She talked to my brother Brady too, and I don't know everything that they talked about, but I know she told him that they wouldn't be putting him in a foster home today. Brady and I were both scared that we were going to be taken away from our mom and dad.

She asked me to draw a picture of my family tree, and then she asked me which one of my family I loved the most. I told her that I love my whole family.I love my mom and dad and I don't want to live anywhere else. They have never hurt me, and they have always taken care of me.

 Kayla Klassen

More to follow

--Sheila Steele, May 5, 2003

Update

Since the civil claim was won December 29, 2004, the Klassen family moved into Saskatoon. They bought a house on the west side.

Kayla and Brady have both been mugged and attacked.

Kayla brought a friend from Outlook with her to visit The Fringe. Both girls were mugged and had their purses stolen.

The muggers were other teen-aged girls who wore gang colours. The police knew who they were, had good descriptions but declined to charge them

Just as the police in John Melenchuk's case refused to investigate Melenchuk's stabbing assault years ago instead preferring to let Native people work things out among themselves, so it would appear the philosophy has extended to teenagers, white trash, any group of people the police on the beat aren't educated or equipped to serve andprotect.

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2002

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2003

 

Feb. 1: Where we stand

Feb. 15, 2003: Has Saskatchewan learned anything?

March 1: Connecting the dots

March 23, 2003: From Micro to Macro

March 25, 2003: About libel and malice

March 27 : Gangs of Saskatoon: the police and prison guards

April 28, 2003: The Naked Truth

May 5: How low will they go?

May 15, 2003: Come clean Calvert, Cline!

May 30: Still smearing Milgaard - defamation is alive and well on the lawn of the Regina legislature and Precendent has been set as we reclaim our institutions

June 11, 2003: --Eric Cline carries on a corrupt tradition

Nov 7: Courage -- the only reward is justice

November 20: Just following orders

November 24: Mayor Atchison, community policing and graffiti

November 25: Michael Jackson

November 30: Corrupt officials must be severely punished: otherwise they just keep on putting the administration of justice in disrepute!

December 1: Christmas comes early for injustice warriors

December 4: Wide open Saskatchewan?

December 16: Crawling through the tunnel of justice since 1991

December 24: The Crown keeps right on breaking the law

December 30: Who will find justice under their tree?

 

2004

 

January 1. 2004: Unprecedented publicity and Happy New Year

January 8, 2004: Malice still afoot

January 10, 2004: Shame and mugshots

January 14, 2004: Telling more truth about the undefamable: McKillop and Quennell, the static duo

January 17, 2004: Fifth Estate returns and A working class hero is something to be

January 22,23, 2004: Justice is still prevailing -- it is just taking longer and Bits and pieces are now coming together to tell the story of the century

January 27, 2004: Telling the truth about the undefamable, restoring reputations to the defamed.

February 5, 2004: Negotiations and strategies: getting an intransigent government to remedy its damage

February 10, 2004: How many lawyers does it take to ruin a province? and Lawyer continues to treat people's lives as a cruel game: monopoly?

Febrary 16, 2004: Calvert is not King Arthur

March 29, 2004: Counting down to the damages trial

April 16, 2004: The internet, the courts and now the movies -- We will so what it takes to get justice

May 1, 2004: If Frank Quennell is any example of what former Justice Minister Chris Axworthy called "evolving," Saskatchewan is ready to kiss justice good-bye!

May 27, 2004: Some observations on Saskatchewan and justice

June 7, 2004:Media coverage of Monique Turenne's story illustrates journalistic laziness

June 8:, 2004 -- The police not only failed to serve and protect Don and Lorna Smith and their children but set them up for false charges and community shunning

September 2, 2004: A tale of three cops: Dueck, Gobeil and Schinkel -- with an update on how they get away with criminal obstruction of justice

November, 2004: Wilfred Hathway, Atif Rafay and Sebastian Burns -- RCMP stings offensive to community standards

November 11, 2004: Rogue Platoon? Identifying the rotten apples in Saskatoon Police Service and why we need a full public inquiry into our whole justice system

November 28, 2004: Can Justice Minister Quennell take a few more steps? The Prosecutors' office is still harbouring crowns who put the administrative of justice in disrepute

November 12, 2004: Saskatchewan Justice in chaos: The Stonechild report suggests it is.

November 28, 2004: The price for being a good judge or a good prosecutor

December 30: When the government interferes with the judiciary, we know a Police State is a dangerous possibility (The government appeal of the Klassen/Kvello decision)

 

2005

 

Jan 1, 2005: Chewed up digested and spit out

Jan. 5, 2005: More on chief Sabo

February 18, 2005: Tunnel vision: Darren Koehn, Wilf Hathway and Leon Walchuk

March 2: Fixing the system: Time to quit talking and implement previous commission recommendations

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