Dive Team Searching For Missing Sandy Bay Child

Dive Team Searching For Missing Sandy Bay Child

Tuesday, December 01, 2009 at 13:55

 

 

Old wounds are being re-opened as volunteers search for a missing six-year-old boy in Sandy Bay.

 

RCMP are saying that they believe the boy slipped into the lake Saturday, and after extensive searches of the shore and the surface of the lake, the underwater recovery team was called in.

 

Nothing has turned up after two days of searching.

 

Paul Morin, the community reference panel coordinator in Sandy Bay, says this is reminiscent of an incident three years ago, when a five-year-old boy slipped into the lake and was never found.

 

Morin says the community is doing all it can at this point.

 

“People were looking all over…. When I was talking to the RCMP (officer) yesterday, he was saying the community was very good in assisting. We looked all over the garbage bins — all over the place. We just couldn’t find him,” he says.

 

Sgt. Carole Raymond with the RCMP says lakes are a dangerous place to be right now.

 

“It is a time of year when there is thin ice on the water. It is not recommended to venture out on the water, and (it is advisable) to certainly keep the children and keep yourself off the water at this point, until we’ve got a thicker (ice) base,” Raymond says.

 

The dive team is continuing to look today.