Link to the Show / Show NotesToday on Listen Up: parenting trials that turn to tragedy. The circumstances surrounding a Nova Scotia pre-teenâs murder send ripples of horror through parents everywhere.
Karissa Boudreau. Itâs a name that should have remained relatively unknown. A name that belonged to a 12-year-old girl. But Karissaâs name hit the headlines, when she disappeared after arguing with her mother in the parking lot of a Nova Scotia store. Two weeks later, police recovered her body from a river. Her death has been labeled homicide.
Every parent of adolescents knows the stresses of raising teens. Today, weâll explore those stresses and we'll also look for spiritual solutions that can make a difference.
THE CONTEXT
On January 27. 12-year-old Karissa Boudreau disappears. Karissaâs mother Penny Boudreau tells police the two had argued in the parking lot of a grocery store. Penny reports she went into the grocery store, returning 10 minutes later to find her daughter missing.
February 9. Karissaâs body is found--covered in snowâbeside the bank of the Lahave River. Not far from where her mother says she was last seen alive.
Police are treating her death as a homicide, an isolated incident, the first in Bridgewater since 1993.
RSS Feed
