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Regina / 980 CJME Feb 11, 2021 4:39 PM When children don’t have normal or regular access to trusted adults like doctors, teachers or counsellors, they have fewer places to go to disclose they’re being abused or neglected. Staff Sgt. James Repesse of the Saskatoon Police Service says cases of child abuse and neglect have been rising overall in Canada over the past five years. During the past year, though, many kids haven’t been in school or with significant adults in their lives outside their families. Because of that, he believes fewer cases are being reported. “There definitely is an...

  SASKATOON -- Throughout James Repesse’s years in policing, he’s never seen a call come in the way it did earlier this month. On Dec. 7, police were called to a home in the 600 block of Lenore Drive for reports of a boy spotted on a roof. The seven-year-old escaped from a second-floor room he was locked in, according to police.  “He climbed out the window and onto the roof to try and get somebody's attention to help him and his brother,” Staff Sgt. Repesse said.  “The circumstances surrounding this, I've never encountered it before. The lengths this little guy had to go to...