Moosonee woman sues OPP after waiting years for complaint against officer to be dealt with – Thestar.com
Aug. 22, 2017
Years after filing a complaint to the province’s police watchdog, Cheryl Hookimaw says she still sees Sgt. Randy Cota in her small community regularly.
Cheryl Hookimaw didn’t want to file a complaint. But after experiencing what she alleges was harassment and abusive behaviour from a veteran Ontario Provincial Police sergeant working in her isolated James Bay community, she decided she’d had enough.
In 2014, Hookimaw turned to the Office of the Independent Police Review Director (OIPRD), Ontario’s police watchdog, filing a formal complaint against an officer she knew she’d still see all over Moosonee, her largely Cree community policed by the OPP.
“I thought it was the right thing to do,” Hookimaw told the Star in an email. “I thought my family would be protected.”
