Police suspect animal attack after girl seriously injured in Quadeville, Ont.

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· Posted: Jun 25, 2025 11:36 AM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) urged parents successful the Quadeville, Ont., country to support their tiny children indoors oregon nether adjacent supervision connected Wednesday, aft a young miss was recovered the time earlier with terrible injuries suspected to person been caused by an animal.

Emergency services responded astir 12:30 a.m. connected Tuesday to reports that an eight-year-old miss who had been missing for hours was recovered with perchance life-threatening injuries successful woods successful Quadeville, a colony located astir 60 kilometres southwest of Renfrew.

Little is publically known astir the quality of the girl's injuries, but OPP said in a statement Wednesday greeting that "investigators fishy this to person been an carnal attack." They cautioned that "further investigating and investigation is required."

They continued: "As a precaution, parents successful the Quadeville country should proceed to support their tiny children indoors oregon nether adjacent supervision."

OPP officers from the Upper Ottawa Valley detachment are investigating the incidental with the Ministry of Natural Resources, nether the absorption of the OPP transgression probe branch, with assistance from OPP forensic recognition services and the OPP exigency effect team.

Joseph Fiorentino, the pastor of Quadeville Pentecostal Church, said the incidental had shaken the tiny township of astir 300 people. 

"The assemblage is frightened for their ain young children due to the fact that of the ambiguity and the mysteries involved," Fiorentino told CBC connected Wednesday.

It's still not known what had happened to the miss oregon what caused her injuries, helium said. "There's conscionable nary answers close now."

Fifty members of the section assemblage joined the hunt for the young girl on Monday evening aft she went missing, Fiorentino said.

The miss was found in area of wood down homes located connected Quadeville Road, with OPP requesting assistance from Brudenell Lyndoch and Raglan Fire Department.

OPP officers cordoned disconnected the area, leaving residents guessing what mightiness person transpired, Fiorentino said. "We cognize thing astir her authorities oregon information astatine the clip she was found," helium said.

The injured miss was initially transported to St. Francis Memorial Hospital successful Barry's Bay, according to Fiorentino.

Later she was airlifted to the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario successful Ottawa, with Ornge ambulance work confirming that they "transported a paediatric diligent to CHEO with captious injuries relating to an carnal attack."

The miss is reported to beryllium successful unchangeable information successful the intensive attraction unit, Fiorentino said. A doc "did accidental it was a occurrence she was alive," helium added.