For Andrea Egotik, 2026 has been an exceptionally tough 12 months. In January, RCMP got here to her Nunavut house to ship heart-wrenching information. Her daughter had been killed.
“I get up crying. I’m going to mattress crying,” she mentioned. “I simply need my honey and my Ingu.”
In Andrea’s tradition, Ingu means grandchild.
In late January, the physique of Andrea’s 23-year-old daughter, Ayla Egotik-Be taught, was present in her St. Albert condominium.
RCMP say she’d been useless since early December.
Her stays have been solely found after a property supervisor, conducting an eviction, reported a suspicious bundle contained in the unit.
However even after combing the condominium, RCMP couldn’t discover Ayla’s nine-month outdated daughter, Braylee.
“My honey. She was so comfortable to lastly be a mother. My Ingu was her world,” Andrea defined.
She mentioned her daughter moved to St. Albert in 2024, after assembly a person named Christopher Beasley at work.
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The pair have been employed within the kitchen of a mining camp in Goose Lake, Nvt.
The couple’s relationship had home abuse points, courtroom information point out.
Final July, Beasley pleaded responsible to assaulting Ayla between mid-February and on the finish of April. He was sentenced to 18 months of probation.
He was additionally charged twice final 12 months with threatening to kill Ayla, however each fees have been later withdrawn.
RCMP say Ayla’s loss of life was a case of home violence.
Thirty-three-year-old Beasley was arrested and charged with second-degree homicide and indignity to a physique.
“I by no means thought this could ever occur,” Andrea mentioned.
“My honey by no means, ever informed me that Christopher beat on her.”
Andrea provides no person reported Ayla lacking, as a result of they have been getting textual content messages from somebody pretending to be Ayla — for greater than a month after RCMP say she died.
She believes Beasley was sending these messages.
“I’m so mad. I didn’t realize it wasn’t my honey,” she defined.
“He was asking each Ross [Ayla’s dad] and I for cash, and naturally, we each despatched it.”
Andrea despatched World Information textual content messages from Christmas, and as just lately as Jan. 15, displaying somebody impersonating Ayla.
RCMP declined to offer an replace on the case.
Andrea simply retains hoping they’ll name and inform her they’ve discovered her Ingu.
“I had my daughter cremated, and it will solely be proper for Braylee to be along with her mother.”
She is aware of that’s what her daughter would need.
“I’ve additionally had a dream of Ayla. She was standing alone,” she mentioned, “and she or he cradled her arms after which unfolded her arms. She gestured, ‘The place?’ Like she was asking, the place is her child?”
A GoFundMe has been started to assist cowl urn and cremation prices, in addition to flights from Nunavut to Edmonton.
Discovering Braylee might assist present the closure their household wants.
“I would like justice for each of them… They need to nonetheless be right here at the moment.”
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