Simons: A mother's courage finally leads to a charge

She stood up.
She spoke out. 
It wasn’t easy for a young Indigenous woman who’d already overcome addiction, survived spousal abuse, lost three children to the child welfare system and succeeded in getting two of them back.
But she wanted justice for the child she’d lost forever. She wanted justice for her Serenity.
And so she did what she’d been told not to do.
She went public. 
“If I hadn’t sent you the paperwork, if I hadn’t spoken up, they n