Victim ‘was lost’ days before body found

to have missed a flag that she had been reported missing from Manitoba Child and Family Services.

She told them she was staying at a nearby hotel, used by Child and Family Services to house kids in care, and they let her walk away.

Constables Brock Jansen and Craig Houle were later suspended for their actions and eventually left the city police force.

Mohammed told court he had gotten in a fight with his girlfriend, and picked up Tina and asked her if she wanted to party.

“I wasn’t sure how old she was,” he testified.

The trial, which is now in its second week, also heard for the first time Tuesday from people who saw Tina and Cormier together.

Tina’s boyfriend, Cody Mason, who was 18 at the time, testified that the pair first met Cormier earlier that summer and told him they didn’t have a place to stay.

“He took (us) to a house with a basement and in the morning he came back and opened the door,” Mason said.

Cormier went by the name Sebastian, Mason said, and on later encounters would supply Tina with the prescription drug Gabapentin. Mason said he and Tina would also take marijuana, cocaine and alcohol — obtained from other people — in the weeks they spent together that summer.

Under cross-examination, Mason was asked whether Cormier was ever mean to Tina.

“Was he nice to Tina?” defence lawyer Andrew Synyshyn asked. “Yeah,” Mason replied. “Did he ever say or do anything bad to Tina?” Synyshyn asked.

“No,” Mason answered.