Roberta Hill, one of the thousands of Indigenous people who survived Canada's notorious Mohawk Institute residential school, said she was first sexually abused by an Anglican minister after bidding her visiting mother goodbye.
"I was so upset, so distraught, and I was crying," Hill, now 74, told AFP.
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