NEUDORF, Sask. – Grief counsellors will be on hand when students of a former schoolmate found murdered return next week to their Saskatchewan school.
Six-year-old Lee Bonneau spent Grade 1 at North Valley Elementary School in Neudorf, south west of Yorkton.
The little boy was found fatally injured on the Kahkewistahaw First Nation last Wednesday.
He was last seen playing outside the community’s recreation centre while his foster mother was inside playing bingo.
Principal Troy Frick says students and staff will have questions when school starts Tuesday and they have to deal with it honestly and openly.
Frick says Lee always carried with him a little stuffed animal he called Foxy, and while he didn’t say much, he smiled a lot.
“All the students, older, younger would play with him out on the playground. He was a likable kind of kid.
“He was the kind of kid the other kids sort of nurtured and helped along and really seemed to respect and like.”
Lee spent his kindergarten year in Vibank. His former school bus driver says the boy’s mother would walk him to the bus stop every morning.
At some point, Lee was taken into the care of the Ministry of Social Services. He was sent to a foster home on Kahkewistahaw about three weeks before he was killed.
RCMP have made no arrests in the case and continue to investigate.
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