A Nunavut judge says Joanne Nutarak, shown in Ottawa a few months before her 2023 death, suffered years of abuse at the hands of her partner Daryl Quaraq. Justice Mark Mossey sentenced Quaraq to nine years in prison for manslaughter in a Pond Inlet courtroom Thursday. (Photo courtesy of Christine Agnetsiak)
Victim’s family had hoped the man would have been tried for 2nd-degree murder, cousin says
The family of Pond Inlet woman Joanne Nutarak remembered her as always happy and helpful, as her killer was sentenced to nine years in prison Thursday after taking a plea deal for manslaughter.
Dinah Pikuyak holds a sign demanding justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women at Iqaluit’s Red Dress Day march Monday. Approximately 75 people attended on the May 5 National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and Two-Spirit-Plus people. “I’m here on behalf of my niece Savanna who was murdered in Ottawa when she went for a nursing program,” she said. Savanna Pikuyak, 22, was murdered in Ottawa on Sept. 11, 2022, a week after she moved to Ottawa from Sanirajak. (Photo by Daron Letts)