Search for missing children in Pictou County enters 4th day

Aly Thomson · CBC News

· Posted: May 05, 2025 11:07 AM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

A councillor successful the agrarian Nova Scotia enclave wherever 2 children person gone missing said the past 4 days have been "incredibly tough" on the community, arsenic searchers continued to scour Pictou County connected Monday.

Lily Sullivan, 6, and Jack Sullivan, 4, were past seen Friday greeting astatine their location connected Gairloch Road successful Lansdowne Station, astir 20 kilometres southwest of New Glasgow.

Police and hunt and rescue agencies person been combing the country for the children ever since, who they judge wandered disconnected from their home. They've asked the nationalist to enactment distant arsenic trained searchers conduct their work.

Donald Parker, a councillor with the Municipality of Pictou County, said that has been pugnacious connected galore members of the community who conscionable privation to help. But it's important to perceive to the authorities, helium said.

"Everybody successful the assemblage is acrophobic and worried, but we're each hoping for the champion here," said Parker, who has been visiting the hunt sites each day. "It's hard connected the full community.... It's incredibly tough."

About 160 people were inactive doing their enactment Sunday contempt a rainy forecast that made for immoderate challenging hunt conditions.

RCMP Staff Sgt. Curtis MacKinnon said searchers located what could be a footprint on Saturday and expanded their hunt effort successful that area.

Meanwhile, the stepfather of the children said helium wants authorities to grow their hunt to show the New Brunswick borderline and adjacent airports successful lawsuit the children were abducted.

Daniel Martell, who has been successful a narration with the children's parent for 3 years, told CBC News connected Sunday that helium feels the constabulary effect was not swift capable and that much resources should person been made available.

"If anybody retired determination has anything, travel guardant now," Martell pleaded.

Maj. Daniel Roode of the Salvation Army said his enactment has been providing breakfast, luncheon and dinner to the various agencies progressive successful the hunt since Saturday.

"We're going afloat tilt," said Roode from a room successful Westville, N.S., adding that ribs were connected the paper Sunday and arsenic galore arsenic 150 searchers were getting a hardy stew for luncheon connected Monday.

"We anticipation to spot searchers and constabulary and responders good fed ... but we're hoping astir of each that immoderate answers volition beryllium recovered and astir of each that those children would beryllium recovered harmless and sound."

Anyone with accusation astir the children is urged to telephone Pictou County District RCMP astatine 902-485-4333.