RCMP not protecting elderly victim

I am writing this letter to complain about the treatment of my mother when she was attacked in her house on Friday evening.

This psychotic man came into the house holding a rock to bash my mother’s head in. He apparently watched my mother going home alone and he came in checking to see if she really was alone. He was asking her where she had come from and then he started to bash her in the head with the rock.

To me, I would consider that as being attempted murder. Luckily she was able to knee him in the groin and then proceeded to drag him out of the house and then lock the door.

The RCMP was notified and they said that they could do nothing to the guy, who has been stalking her over the last 10 years. This is not the only incident where he has done that to her. Last Toonik Tyme he did the same thing to her at the ladies washroom in the Northmart.

Again, the RCMP did nothing to keep him locked up, but they were more interested in arresting me for defending my mother. I told the officer that he had been doing that to my mother and my aunt since the morning during Toonik Tyme festivities.

My mother even had a restraining order against him but even that did not seem to matter to the RCMP. When are they finally going to do something about it? Only after he has finally killed her?

The RCMP in Iqaluit is a joke. They are only interested in arresting intoxicated people and do nothing about the more serious crimes that are being perpetrated by people out there. They say that they are here to serve and protect the people of Iqaluit but what protection did my mother get from them? It does not seem right when someone does that to an elder and the RCMP does not seem to care if he is going to do that to her again and keep releasing him after a day or two.

My mother is not the only elder that he has done that to and I am sure that we are going to hear of a lot more incidents like this or even worse.

Are the elderly people, mainly women, in this town going to have to start looking over their shoulders even in the safety of their own homes?

(Name withheld by request)
Outraged Citizen
Iqaluit