Cherry Lynne Kingsley: June 7, 1969 - Nov. 30, 2021
Cherry Lynne Kingsley knew too well that the ghosts of a brutal, broken childhood are never truly vanquished. The illustrious list of people who admired Ms. Kingsley included Canadian senators, political leaders, a decorated lieutenant-general and people around the world moved by her passionate work on behalf of Indigenous and sexually exploited children and youth. But no amount of love and support was enough whenever those ghosts came for her. “Sometimes people have the impression there was a transformation, like a cloak, and I just took it off. ‘You’ve overcome so much,’ ” Ms. Kingsley said in the 2002 film Recognizing the Person, which documented her journey from a violent childhood to international renown as a brilliant and charismatic young leader changing thinking and attitudes around the sexual exploitation of children. “I don’t know if I overcame any of it, to be honest. I think I live with it every single day. There is no destination that you get to when you’re healed and that...