Ian Mulgrew: Allegations that B.C. RCMP officers abused Indigenous women ‘swept under the carpet,’ says ex-Mountie

Part one of a series

Garry Kerr saw a lot of bodies as one of the RCMP’s top homicide investigators in B.C.

But the unsolved murders and disappearance of so many First Nations girls and women linked to the Highway of Tears in northern B.C. haunt him.

Something else also now gnaws at the retired staff sergeant: Learning that allegations of Mountie complicity in the violent, sexual abuse of Indigenous girls in Prince George were not investigated, as he had believed, and perhaps were covered up.