Police Find Missing Indigenous Teen Safe in Nova Scotia Woods

Police Find Missing Indigenous Teen Safe in Nova Scotia Woods
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KASONI, N.S.—An Indigenous girl missing for more than a week has been found safe with the man she was traveling with after police located the pair in an isolated part of Nova Scotia, police said Saturday.

The 14-year-old girl, a member of We’koqma’q Mi’kmaq First Nation, was last seen at a gas station in Eskasoni around 4 p.m. on Aug. 13. She had earlier gone missing from her foster home and was believed to be traveling with 47-year-old Darcy Doyle.