A Native girl who was abused in her home on the Fisher River Cree Nation in Manitoba is finally being buried today, four years after her death.

Phoenix Sinclair died in June 2005. But her body was being kept as evidence in the case against her mother and her stepfather.

Samantha Kematch and Karl Wesley McKay were sentenced to life in prison for the first-degree murder. They are appealing the verdict but agreed to a release of Sinclair's remains.

Sinclair's services were held at the Metis Friendship Centre in Winnipeg. She would have turned nine today.

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Phoenix Sinclair gets proper funeral 4 years after her death (CBC 4/23)