Williams Lake First Nation Chief Willie Sellars attends a community gathering to mark the beginning of the search of the school grounds on Aug. 30, 2021.(Laureen Carruthers)
The team heard stories of disappearances, murders, systematic torture, rape and starvation of children, according to Sellars. There were accounts of children who were tied to boards and lashed, and newborn babies fathered by priests tossed into the school's incinerator.
Some members of the church's leadership, including Father Harold McIntee, were later convicted of sexual offences against the students.
Sellars said that there were reports of children disappearing from the school or dying on its grounds while it was still in operation, but those stories were "intentionally obscured" through destruction of records and cover-ups by governments, church authorities and police.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/williams-lake-findings-1.6326467
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