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Dong-Yue Zhang (張東嶽, Hanyu Pinyin: Zhāng Dōngyuè, March 30, 1994 — October 20, 2003), known as Cecilia Zhang, was a 9-year-old girl who went missing from her Toronto, Ontario, Canada family home in fall 2003, making Canadian and international headlines. Her remains were found months later in Mississauga, Ontario. First-degree murder charges were laid in July 2004. Personal names in Chinese culture follow a number of conventions different from those of personal names in Western culture. ...
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Kidnapping
Sometime after 10 p.m. on October 19, 2003 and before 8:30 a.m. on October 20, 2003, Cecilia Zhang was kidnapped from her family home in Toronto, Ontario. Police presume that the kidnapper(s) entered through the window of her second floor bedroom, as the screen was broken the next morning. Police initially thought multiple kidnappers were involved. October 19 is the 292nd day of the year (293rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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On the other side of the Toronto area, two phone calls were made to the Zhang home, which were traced to different Brampton pay phones. These were made just minutes before her parent realized she was missing. Both calls were completely silent when answered. Her disappearance was not noticed until Monday morning shortly before 8:30 a.m.. Coordinates: Country Canada Province Ontario Region Peel Incorporation 1853 (village) 1873 (town) 1974 (city) Mayor Susan Fennell Governing Body Brampton City Council (click for members) MPs Navdeep Bains, Colleen Beaumier, Ruby Dhalla, Gurbax Malhi MPPs Vic Dhillon, Linda Jeffrey, Kuldip Kular Area - City 266. ...
Neither the Zhangs nor police received ransom demands, and neither party had any contact with the abductors.
Search effort On the day Cecilia was taken, a province-wide AMBER Alert was issued. Along with notifications running along the bottom of television screens, all highway signs alert motorists about the abduction, providing a description. The alert was called off a day later. In the United States and Canada, an AMBER Alert is a notification to the general public, by various media outlets, that a confirmed abduction of a child has happened. ...
Numerous hotlines were set up for reporting information on Cecilia, both in English and in Chinese dialects. Anyone with any information on Cecilia Zhang's abduction was asked to contact the Toronto Police's 33 Division at (416) 808-3300 or anonymously through Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
Two rewards totaling $200,000 were offered.
Local stores, businesses, and other locales posted posters and flyers, with 1700 displayed at bus stops and subway stations alone.
An e-mail message was circulated through a chain of forwarding, to try to raise awareness.
The website ceciliazhang.org was created by the family to provide information on the girl, and to provide an "absolutely untraceable" text box to put forth information.
A segment about Cecilia ran on America's Most Wanted on November 1, 2003. The day after, thirteen fresh tips were turned over to police; still this didn't give detectives any definitive leads. AMW redirects here; for other uses of that term, see AMW (disambiguation). ...
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Police encouraged the kidnappers to return Cecilia during Santa Claus Parade, an annual event held in downtown Toronto in late November. As there are typically thousands of kids along the parade route, this would be an opportune time for the kidnappers to release Cecilia, without drawing any attention to themselves. However, the event passed without her return.
Finding of remains On March 28, 2004, police confirmed that remains, discovered by a hiker in a Mississauga wooded ravine, were those of Cecilia Zhang. A winter thaw exposed the evidence; remains which seem to have been idle for quite some time. Peel Regional Police called in national forensic experts and stated that "this is now a homicide investigation." March 28 is the 87th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (88th in leap years). ...
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Motto: Pride in our past, Faith in our future Coordinates: Country Canada Province Ontario Region Peel Established 1974 City Mayor Hazel McCallion Governing Body Mississauga City Council MPs Navdeep Singh Bains, Albina Guarnieri, Wajid Khan, Omar Alghabra, Paul Szabo MLAs Bob Delaney, Vic Dhillon, Peter Fonseca, Tim Peterson, Harinder Takhar...
Arrest and trial At a press conference on July 22, 2004, police noted that the investigation was global, involving the RCMP, Vancouver Police, FBI, and police in mainland China. The conference was not without public criticism mainly due to the emotional comments made by the Peel Regional Police Chief Noel Catney. At the time, Catney, who was appearing live on television, held a photograph of 21-year-old Min Chen, a man who was then accused of murder but had not yet been put on trial, stating that "he is not just a murderer. This is the most despicable of criminals. This is a child murderer." Several prominent members of the legal community felt that the Peel police chief had crossed a line by disregarding Chen's presumption of innocence, which could have tainted his right to a fair trial. July 22 is the 203rd day (204th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 162 days remaining. ...
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Min Chen pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on May 09, 2006. According to an agreed statement of facts read out in a Brampton, Ontario courthouse, Chen was failing in his college studies and feared deportation back to his native China. He desperately needed $25,000 to enter into a marriage of convenience as a means of obtaining right of permanent residence in Canada. He planned to kidnap Cecilia for ransom, hoping even to return her the same day after delivery of the money from her parents. Chinese student Min Chen with first-degree murder in the case of Cecilia Zhang. ...
Coordinates: Country Canada Province Ontario Region Peel Incorporation 1853 (village) 1873 (town) 1974 (city) Mayor Susan Fennell Governing Body Brampton City Council (click for members) MPs Navdeep Bains, Colleen Beaumier, Ruby Dhalla, Gurbax Malhi MPPs Vic Dhillon, Linda Jeffrey, Kuldip Kular Area - City 266. ...
Her death was the result of Chen botching up his poorly planned scheme during the early hours of October 20, 2003 at Cecilia's home. When Cecilia struggled and tried to scream, Chen covered her face with a towel and held his hand over her mouth. She had stopped struggling by the time Chen placed her inside the trunk of his car and left. When Chen later stopped to check on her, she had stopped breathing.[1]
References - ^ Student pleads guilty to killing 9-year old Cecilia Zhang, CBC News, May 9, 2006
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External links - CBC: The Cecilia Zhang case
- Toronto Star: Cecilia Zhang special report
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