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Alberta’s justice minister has ordered an independent investigation into the courts’ treatment of a sexual assault complainant who was shackled while giving evidence about the attack, and held in custody alongside the man who assaulted her.

Kathleen Ganley said Monday the failures that led to a young indigenous woman’s mistreatment are “almost too numerous to list.”

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The details of what happened to the woman came as a surprise to her brother, who described her Monday as a “good mother, good sister, good person.”

“(She) kept all her problems to herself and didn’t want to burden people,” he said.

Neither the woman nor her brother can be identified under a court-ordered publication ban.

The victim, a mother of four, was living on the street in June 2014 when Lance David Blanchard dragged her inside his home and assaulted her.

Blanchard was convicted of aggravated sexual assault, kidnapping, unlawful confinement, possession of a weapon, threatening to cause death or bodily harm and breaching conditions of his release in December 2016. He was acquitted of attempted murder in the case.