Missing in new brunswick

[Rev Willow Raine]

Missing teen's family pleads for help
Last Updated: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 | 12:22 PM AT Comments0Recommend16CBC News
Members of the Eskinuopitijk First Nation march on Tuesday to draw attention to the disappearance of Hilary Bonnell. (CBC)The family of Hilary Bonnell is begging for help to find the teenager who disappeared from the Eskinuopitijk First Nation almost three weeks ago.

Sherry Ward, Bonnell's aunt, is asking people in the northeastern New Brunswick community of Eskinuopitijk, commonly known as Burnt Church, to check their own properties for the missing teenager.

"There is a predator out there. Hilary did not run away. Somebody had to have taken her for her not to be here," Ward said.

"There was no need for her to run away. She would have never run away. That's why we're asking for help. Anyone and everyone look in your backyards, pray, if you see anything call 911, do something."

Ward said nothing like this has ever happened on their reserve.

The Eskinuopitijk First Nation is offering a $15,000 reward to anyone with information leading to her safe return.

Police, family and friends have been searching for the 16-year-old by air and on the ground.

And on Tuesday, members of the reserve marched along the community's streets to bring attention to Bonnell's disappearance.

She said people are scared and young people are being warned not to walk anywhere alone.

Pamela Fillier, Bonnell's mother, said the ordeal is a "bad dream" that she cannot seem to wake up from.

"I wish to God I could [wake up]. I wish this was just a bad dream," Fillier said.

"This don't happen around here. Anybody that brings her home, even if it's the people that have her, they could have the reward, just bring her home."

Bonnell was last seen walking along Highway 11 at about 7:30 a.m. on Sept. 5. She disappeared after attending a party with friends the night before on the Eskinuopitijk First Nation, known as Burnt Church.

Bonnell is aboriginal, has dark eyes and black, shoulder-length hair. She is five feet five inches tall and weighs about 134 pounds. She was last seen wearing a purple T-shirt, a black sweater, jean shorts and sandals.

Please pray for her safe return!! Blessings, Rev Willow Raine

[DodiaFae]

Rev Willow, any updates on this missing child?

[Rev Willow Raine]

mm, no theres no word but let me make a call to the reserve andsee if theyve found her yet.
Blessings, Rev Willow

[Rev Willow Raine]

Its with great sadness that I bring this most unfortunate news. May Spirit be there for her family and friends during this sad time. Blessings and tears, Rev Willow

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ST..JOHNS (CBC) - RCMP have confirmed that the body found on New Brunswick's Acadian Peninsula earlier this week is that of 16-year-old Hilary Bonnell, who went missing from the Esgenoopetitj First Nation two months ago.

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Although autopsy results still aren't in, Insp. Roch Fortin said Saturday there is little doubt that it is Hilary.


"We only have one missing person in the Acadian Peninsula. The clothing and some of the evidence found at the scene, with all the evidence that we have at the scene and how we were led to the scene, we are 100 per cent sure that this is Hilary," he said.


"However, the DNA and testing will conclude beyond any reasonable doubt."


The autopsy was to be performed Saturday in Saint John on the body, found in the remote, wooded area of the former military firing range in Tracadie-Sheila.


Foul play is suspected and a suspect remains in custody.


Police are waiting for the autopsy results and further information about the circumstances surrounding Hilary's death before deciding what charges to lay, Fortin said.


Hilary was last seen on Sept. 5 walking along Highway 11 in Esgenoopetitj, commonly known as Burnt Church.


The RCMP searched properties in Burnt Church and another in the nearby community of Tabusintac last week as part of a criminal investigation. At the time, the Mounties did not link the searches to Hilary's disappearance, but Fortin has since confirmed they were related to the case.


He said he hopes to bring Hilary's family to the site where her body was found to help give them "proper closure," but investigators have to complete some work first.


"We have to bring an excavator to the scene, and we just want to make sure that ... everything that we require for evidence purposes is all gathered before we bring the family, and to bring the site to a peaceful site that is not too traumatic for the family," he said.

[DodiaFae]

My prayers go out to her family, and for swift justice to her killer.

Thank you for the update, Rev Willow.

Blessings,
~ DodiaFae