An inquiry into the death of a Manitoba girl has been told there were bruises on her body a year before she died.
The inquiry is examining how child welfare failed to protect Phoenix Sinclair from being fatally beaten in June 2005 by her mother, Samantha Kematch, and Kematch’s boyfriend, Karl McKay.
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The inquiry has heard from McKay’s daughter, who cannot be identified under a publication ban.
She said she saw bruises on Phoenix twice in 2004 – once on the face and once on her arm.
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The woman, who was 17 at the time, said she was told one bruise resulted from a fall in a bathtub and the other came from a vehicle accident.
The woman also said that in early 2006, Kematch asked her to help Kematch find another young girl who would pretend to be Phoenix for welfare investigators.
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