Post by watchdog on Jan 31, 2008 2:28:18 GMT -5
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Vehicle of interest
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Broadcast time: 16:40
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
33 Division
416−808−3305
The Toronto Police Service is requesting the public’s assistance identifying an
eight−month−old girl.
She was found at a plaza at the intersection of Leslie Street and Finch Avenue East at
approximately 12:30 p.m., on Wednesday, January 30, 2008.
She is described as black, light complexion, approximately eight months old. She was found
wearing a green hat and a white snowsuit with a pink jumper underneath.
Anyone with information on this child's identity is asked to call police at 416−808−3305, Crime
Stoppers anonymously at 416−222−TIPS (8477), or online at www.222tips.com.
Update:
Public’s help needed to identify baby girl
Friday, February 01, 2008 - 01:20 PM
Investigators are appealing to the public for help identifying an abandoned baby girl found in the parking lot stairwell of a North York mall.
At a Jan. 31 press conference, Det. Keith Moxley showed the media several pieces of clothing worn by the eight-month-old girl when she was left behind in a stairwell, in the Leslie St. and Finch Ave. E. area, a day earlier. The unidentified girl was taken to the Hospital for Sick Children after being spotted by a passerby shortly after noon on Jan. 30.
“My concern at this point is about the parents,” said Moxley. “If they are out there and if they’re safe, please come forward and contact us, and we’ll make sure the right things are done.”
Video footage obtained by investigators show that the child was left behind by an unidentifiable person driving a green four-door sedan, possibly a Ford Escort.
Moxley said that so far, they have received more tips from the public about the car.
“I've been in the business for a few years and this is not routine," said Moxley. “I would go so far as to say it is abnormal to run into a situation where a child is left with no supervision, and no one has stepped forward within hours to say, ‘That’s my neighbor or that’s my niece.’ ”
Though the infant was clad in fleece jumpers, socks and a toque, the temperature inside the stairwell was as low as -14C. The girl was also bleeding and bruised when she was found, but officials cannot say if the child had been abused.
Typically, children are abandoned at a much earlier age, according to David Rivard, executive director of the Children’s Aid Society.
“Historically people abandon children because of poverty of because of social conditions,” he said. “We’re living in a different environment now.”
Anyone with information about the identity of the infant is encouraged to call Crime Stoppers at 416-222-TIPS (8477) or 33 Division at 416-808-3300.
By Louis Tam