![]() ![]() Not found deceased in a 46-year-old man’s apartment.” She should be doing teenager things: hanging out with friends, going to the mall. This is such a tragic ending to a 13 year-old girl’s life. “We need answers and we need change, so we don’t have any more Noelle O’Soup’s. “She was in their care in their group home…why did she run away from this group home? Why was she turning to the streets when she’s in their care?” August asked. “A 13 year-old girl - They failed her.”Īugust said the family wants accountability from government and police agencies with connections to the case, including the Ministry of Children and Family Development. “I just feel like all of these levels of government and agencies, they failed her,” she said. Speaking from Kamloops, O’Soup’s aunt Josie August said the teen’s family is angered by the news. “Members are also required to consider the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms when determining whether or not detention is warranted, particularly in circumstances such as when detention is lengthy or where the prospect of removal has become remote.” 'THEY FAILED HER' “IRB members are independent decision-makers who determine the cases before them on their individual merits,” the board said. In an emailed statement to CTV, the IRB said “Canadian law regards detention as an exceptional measure.” He was also told to “fully cooperate” with respect to obtaining travel documents. Pham was ordered released by the IRB on a promise to appear, with a requirement to let the CBSA know where he would be living and report any change in address. Pham had been trying to get into their house by banging on the doors and windows and demanding to be let in,” Sherwood said. 10, Pham was arrested after police were called to a home in Vancouver. Three days later, he returned to the recovery home displaying signs of being under the influence of drugs, and left when he was told about the warrant. Sherwood said he then left without permission in early October and a warrant was issued for his arrest. He described how Pham had been released most recently on July 28 of that year with a number of conditions, and was admitted to a recovery house. Sherwood said Pham had violated three release orders from the immigration division, “including two in the last couple of months”. “And unfortunately one of the individuals died after having overdosed in Mr Pham’s room at his former residence.” Pham poses a danger to the public because he sells dangerous drugs to vulnerable people in the Downtown Eastside,” he said. Sherwood also spoke about the public safety concerns. “We’ve provided the Vietnamese authority with all the information we have pertaining to Mr.Pham, his history and his family in Vietnam, but they still refuse to issue a travel document” “The minister has made extensive and continued efforts to try and obtain a travel document for Mr. Logan Sherwood, who represented CBSA at the hearing, said a removal officer had spoken with Pham’s sister, who said her parents did not want to be involved in any way with his repatriation to Vietnam. “Because right now, there is no possibility of removal. “If I was to continue your detention, it might last for years,” MacPhalen said. The hearing was told the CBSA applied to the Vietnamese embassy for a travel document in 2019, but there had been no real progress. The only reason I’m releasing you is I do not believe that there is any possibility that (Canada Border Services Agency) will be able to get a travellers document for you and return you to Vietnam.” “I do find that you pose a danger to the public. One woman died of an overdose in your room,” MacPhalen said, and added that incident occurred at the Canada Hotel in June of 2019. “I’m also satisfied that you sell drugs to people, and that you give drugs to vulnerable women so that they will have sex with you. 'YOU GIVE DRUGS TO VULNERABLE WOMEN'ĬTV has reviewed audio of an Immigration and Refugee Board detention review in October 2020, where Pham was ordered released.ĭuring the proceedings, IRB member Michael MacPhalen told Pham he was “satisfied that you are a long-term drug addict and that you use meth and fentanyl”. In May, the bodies of 14 year-old O’Soup and another woman police have not publicly identified were found in the same room. ![]() Less than two years before Van Chung Pham’s body was found in February, he was released from immigration custody, even though authorities considered him a danger to the public. More information is coming to light about a man found dead in a rooming house in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, where the bodies of missing teen Noelle O’Soup, who was 13 when she disappeared in 2021, and another woman were found months later. ![]()
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