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Minister apologizes to grandmother of boy who died in foster care

An 11-year-old endured horrible abuse in an eastern Fraser Valley community before dying in 2021
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Minister of Children and Family Development Mitzi Dean (pictured) has apologized to the grandmother of an 11-year-old boy who died in foster care in an eastern Fraser Valley community, and has agreed to meet with her. (Dillon White/ Black Press)

The grieving grandmother of a child who died in foster care in a small eastern Fraser Valley community has received an apology from the provincial government.

“If she’s watching this now, I send to her and all the family my deepest apologies and condolences,” Mitzi Dean said in a TV report that aired on CTV News Aug. 10. “This has been a terrible, terrible tragedy.

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Eric Welsh

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I joined the Chilliwack Progress in 2007, originally hired as a sports reporter.
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