Missing girl safely located: Winnipeg police
A 12-year-old girl missing for nearly two weeks has been found.
Winnipeg police said the girl was last seen on May 30 in North Kildonan.
On Thursday, police reported she had been found and was safe.
CTV News Winnipeg has removed the girl's name and photo, as she is a minor.
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"The teams and participants were mostly surprised by what was happening nearby, but everyone is fine now," they said. 5-year-old 'traumatized' Forget and Mendoza said that although their family is now physically fine — the 10-month-old's eyes were irritated for a few days — the event will leave emotional scars, notably for their five-year-old daughter. "We got home that night and she vomited and she said that she felt so tense," Mendoza said. Forget said she still asks a lot of questions about what happened that night, but that he is running out of answers. "She is very, very traumatized," he said, noting that she has been afraid of going into crowds and refusing to sleep alone ever since. "I'm very angry that this has shaken her confidence in the police and in events and it was so unfair that that was the way that our Saturday night ended," Mendoza said. The family has received a lot of concerned messages from friends and family after the pictures spread. Forget said they also received questions asking why they would bring their children to such a protest. "I would never bring my daughters in an environment like that," he said in response to the criticism. Forget and Mendoza said while the situation could have gone even worse, they still don't understand why Montreal police fired at the park. "If I had not been able to pick up [my 10-month-old] within the second that I picked her up, we could have ended up losing her vision," he said. Mendoza said police should show more restraint when using chemical irritants to disperse crowds.
