Watch above: Some highly disturbing allegations from family members who say the man who killed three children and their mother sent photos of the bodies to the kid’s biological father. Amber Rockliffe finds out more about the Tisdale tragedy.
SASKATOON – Family Service Saskatoon said the tragic deaths of a mother and her three children in Tisdale, Sask. have raised many questions about domestic violence. While the organization was unable to comment on the specifics of the Tisdale case, it said it points to an overall societal crisis.
“On any given day, over 3,000 women are in a shelter to escape domestic violence,” the organization’s Executive Director Karen Wood said.
“And anywhere between 2,500 and 3,000 children,” she explained.
According to Statistics Canada, every six days a woman is killed by her intimate partner. Family Service Saskatoon said many of the warning signs of domestic violence are rooted in inequality and power dynamics.
“Some of the indicators are micro-control in the home and outside of the home,” explained Wood.
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Latasha Gosling and her three children were killed by Gosling’s boyfriend, according to her cousin, Tim Funk. That has not been confirmed by the police.
Funk said the killer took photos of the bodies and sent them to the children’s biological father on his cell phone.
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The father then called RCMP, who discovered the bodies early Wednesday morning in a mobile home in the town of Tisdale.
The suspect left the trailer and was found dead in a home in Prince Albert, with a six-month-old baby, who was unharmed.
Police have not yet confirmed the identity of the suspect, but residents in the town of Tisdale have identified him as Steve O’Shaughnessy.
Friends of Latasha Gosling have taken to social media to express their shock and devastation.
“She was beautiful and full of life and our lives will be better because we knew her,” was just one of many posts on the wall of a Facebook support group Gosling was involved with.
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The province said it’s in the midst of updating its Victims of Interpersonal Violence Act to expand the ability of police to help victims.
The update will include adding harassment and deprivation of necessities as prohibited forms of interpersonal violence.
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