Friday, February 16, 2007

sad story - hits close to home

My friend Miranda told me about this sad story about Chrissy Predham Newmana, a 28 year old Ottawa native who moved to St. John's two years ago and was recently murdered.

She was found slain and there is some suspicion around her estranged husband. Sadly, she is survived by a a 16 month old daughter (Ireland) who is now in protective custody as a result.

Miranda's co-worker (Shelly Cournya) is a friend of Chrissy's mother and has enthusiastically set up a trust fund for little Ireland. Shelly has been interviewed by the CBC and has managed to raise $11,000 so far but has another $14,000 to go in order to reach her target.

Chrissy is about our age... scary!!! makes it hit a bit closer to home eh?

Trust fund info: LINK

Press coverage:

Story 1

Story 2

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I feel for chrissy, i really do. Her estranged husband was was X and father of my child. This leaves me very scared, also very releaved i left him when i did.i pray for chrissy and ireland and her family all the time.