Youth gang attacks toddlers, child care worker at Nunavik playground – Nunatsiaq News

“We were in a total state of panic”

A Kuujjuaq childcare provider says she plans to be more careful when she’s walking around the Nunavik community with children.

That’s because of an Oct. 5 incident at a local playground when a gang of local youth attacked her and a group of young children in her care.

Marilyne Tétrault had four children in her care, aged between 18 months and five years, when they were approached by a group of about a dozen pre-teens at the playground, Tétrault said.

Tétrault said the youth began jumping on the large stroller she uses to transport the children, shaking it and threatening to tip over a wagon in which a 19-month-old child was still sitting.

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