Ontario Police have released a 3D facial approximation of a child whose remains were found in the Grand River in Dunnville, Ont., two years ago. Additionally, a $50,000 reward has been offered to encourage public assistance in identifying the child.
The child’s remains were found on May 17, 2022, by two individuals fishing on the Grand River. As the second anniversary of the discovery approaches, an OPP investigator expressed optimism that the new forensic genetic image will aid in identifying the child.
“We are hopeful that the 3D facial approximation will spark someone’s memory and help us identify this little girl. We want to give this child her name back,” OPP Detective Inspector Shawn Glassford said. “It’s difficult to understand how someone could throw away a child like that.”
Darryl Graham, an OPP detective involved in the case in 2022, described the heavy feeling he experienced when he received the call.
“I was hoping that this report had been exaggerated and the information that had been received or the observations made by the complainant had been inaccurate,” he said in the video. “Being a parent myself, the last thing that I wanted to be involved in or to know that happened was that a child had died.”
Det. Graham said he received the report from OPP in Haldimand County that a child’s body was located along the southern bank of the Grand River. Haldimand County is a rural municipality on the Niagara Peninsula in southern Ontario.
