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VICTORIA — The day Carly Fraser turned 19, the troubled teen lost whatever foster care supports had helped her battle years of mental illness and addiction.

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Twenty hours after her birthday, in a moment of despair, she threw herself off the Lions Gate Bridge. Her body was never found.

Carly’s tragic journey through B.C.’s child welfare system was marked by abuse, neglect and confusion, her mother Lisa Fraser said Wednesday.

But the government won’t review her case, answer questions or examine what prompted her to jump from the bridge on Dec. 21, 2014.

Instead, the children’s ministry said because Carly committed suicide 20 hours and 35 minutes after she turned 19, she had aged out of the system and her case wasn’t eligible for review.

Her mother travelled from Burnaby to the legislature Wednesday to seek answers to what happened during the four years Carly was in ministry care before she took her own life.

“I’d like a review,” Fraser said. “Because I want answers to how the decisions were made, who made them, why they made them, and why they wouldn’t listen to anything I said.”

Stephanie Cadieux, minister of children and families, expressed sadness at the suicide, but did not reopen the case. Instead, she asked her staff to double-check whether the policy denying a review was properly applied.