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Striking a balance: Restorative justice brings offenders face-to-face with their victims.

Derosa, Katie
June 4, 2015

Source: (2009) Times Colonist. 16 August.

In the emotional saga following the brutal murder of 14-year-old Reena Virk in 1997, her traumatized parents went through markedly different experiences with their daughter’s two killers: One of denial and self-pity with Kelly Ellard, and one of remorse and closure with Warren Glowatski. (excerpt)

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