A 28-year-old woman found naked and screaming on Thunder Bay street

A 28-year-old woman was found March 10 just after midnight on a street in Thunder Bay. She was naked and screaming for help. Her mother is now accusing the local police of ignoring the crime committed against her daughter, because she is a First Nations woman and an addict, reports the CBC’s Jody Porter.

A man who had stopped to help the woman said the victim told the police she had been paid for sex, but the John tried to kill her and dump her in a lake. Her mother saw the bruises on her body. The Good Samaritan, who had given the young woman his sweater to keep warm, said the police showed “a bit less care and less compassion” when it was learned she was a prostitute. The officer handed his sweater back to him using two fingers and told him “to wash or burn it as soon as I got a chance.”