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Missing 3-year-old boy found dead in creek in Mississauga, Ont.: police
A three-year-old boy has been found dead a day after he went missing in a park in Mississauga, Ont., Peel police say.
Divers have recovered the body of 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham from a Texas river days after the girl went missing, and authorities are preparing to file a murder charge against a friend of her father who lived on her family’s property, a sheriff said Tuesday afternoon.
Polk County Sheriff Byron Lyons said Audrii's body was found by divers during a search in the Trinity River in a rural area north of Houston. Her body was located about 10 miles (16 kilometres) from her home near Lake Livingston.
"My heart aches with this news,” Lyons said.
Audrii's family had reported her missing on Thursday after she failed to return after school to her home in Livingston. After she was reported missing, investigators discovered that she never got on the bus to go to school that morning.
Polk County District Attorney Shelly Sitton said officials were preparing an arrest warrant for Don Steven McDougal, 42, on a recommended charge of capital murder. She said they do not yet know if they would seek the death penalty in the case.
This undated photo released by the Polk County Jail shows Steven McDougal of Livingston, Texas. McDougal has been named as one of the persons of interest involved in the disappearance of 11-year-old Audriii Cunningham. (Polk County Jail via AP)
Lyons said there is “substantial evidence” in the case, and that cell phone data and videos helped identify places to search. He added that the Trinity River Authority lowered water levels on the river, which led to the discovery of her body.
Authorities have said McDougal is a friend of the girl’s father and lived in a camper on the family’s property. Audrii lived with her father, grandparents and other family members, authorities said.
Lyons has said that in the past, McDougal had taken Audrii to the bus stop or would take her to school if she missed the bus.
A backpack that authorities believe belonged to the child was found Friday near the dam on Lake Livingston, one of the state’s largest lakes.
As authorities investigated Audrii's disappearance last week, they had named McDougal as a person of interest and he was arrested Friday on an unrelated assault charge. He remained in jail Tuesday on that charge. Jail records did not list an attorney for him.
Court records from Brazoria County, south of Houston, show McDougal pleaded no contest to two felony counts of enticing a child stemming from a 2007 incident and was sentenced to two years in prison.
The sheriff said that the girl’s body has been taken to the Harris County medical examiner’s office in Houston to determine the cause of death.
Associated Press writer Sean Murphy contributed to this report from Oklahoma City
A three-year-old boy has been found dead a day after he went missing in a park in Mississauga, Ont., Peel police say.
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