A Montreal telemarketing agency has fired one of its supervisors, after he apparently ordered employees not to call police regarding a young woman found beaten, half-naked and unconscious outside their offices last Saturday.
Sitel Canada has not released the name of the employee, who was fired Friday after an internal investigation, said the call centre’s president.
“There are very good grounds for making this decision,” Craig Meilleur said. 
Employees at the call centre said they saw the 17-year-old runaway lying on her back in the rain, naked from the waist down. They said her skin was a pale grey colour, and when her arms moved, it seemed as though she was in pain.
A previously published report quoted the supervisor as saying that he didn’t call 911 because he “didn’t see any blood” and thought the girl was simply “out of it.”
The girl, whose name has not been released, remains in a coma with severe head injuries. Her family identified her after photos of her tattoos were shown on television.
“All they had to do was dial 911,” the girl’s father said during an interview on Montreal’s CFCF TV station. “If you saw a dog in that condition you’d call the SPCA. I can’t find the words to describe how sickened I am.”
The case has outraged many citizens of Montreal. Sitel employees returned to work Thursday to find angry graffiti scrawled on their building and parking lot.
Police are still looking for the girl’s attackers.
