Near the end of February, Emily, a social worker with extensive experience working in child protective services, received news that made her heart sink.
A six-year-old child had been stabbed in broad daylight in downtown Halifax, allegedly by a 19-year-old woman.
Her first thought?
It might be one of her clients.
“I honestly went through every teenager that I had on my caseload and thought it could have been any one of them that was in that position,” she said in an interview with CBC News last month.
Her colleague Stephanie wasn’t surprised either.
“My first reaction was: ‘Of course that happened,'” she said.
As more information became known, both were relieved to learn it wasn’t one of their clients who instigated the attack, or who was hurt.
But after the mother of the accused spoke to CBC News about how she warned police, doctors and social workers that her daughter was dangerous, they decided to speak out.
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