Subhead:Only two allegations of murders were received, which the RCMP investigators found to be baseless, as well as one allegation surrounding clandestine burials, also unsubstantiated.#
The RCMP’s eight-year investigation into B.C. residential schools confirms no evidence of murders or clandestine burials, according to the Real Indigenous Report. However, 14 men were arrested and faced charges for other abuses investigated by a 1995 task force.
Calvin Swustus, a 17-year veteran of the Vancouver Island RCMP and a task force member, was satisfied that the investigations led to arrests, charges, and convictions, despite being flawed. “I feel good that some people were arrested, charged and convicted.”
Only two allegations of murders were received, which the RCMP investigators found to be baseless, as well as one allegation surrounding clandestine burials, also unsubstantiated.
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Keavin Amyot, a convicted child sexual predator, confessed to sexually assaulting a St. Mary’s Indian Residential School survivor in 1997, calling himself a “monster” and a pedophile, according to the Investigative Journalism Foundation.
Further charges were recommended in 2002 after a second victim emerged, but Amyot died before approval.
Efforts led to charges against 14 men; however, only eight of these were directly linked to the team’s work after its formation. During its tenure, the team gathered over 4,000 tips, leading to 974 criminal allegations against 129 individuals.
