CANADA Canada - Jack, 4 & Lily Sullivan, 6, Vulnerable, wandered from home 10am, Gairloch Rd, Landsdowne Station, Pictou County, NS, 2 May 2025

[branmuffin]

This is where IMO he should just shut it. It probably the first time the media has shown the slightest bit of interest in him and so he’s anxiously thinking he must answer their questions. Meanwhile the public is analyzing what he says and he’s clearly not a practised public speaker, not even a clear speaker.

Doesn’t necessarily indicate he’s not telling the truth, just that his words are coming from his panicked perspective and seems he doesn’t want to be judged (can’t blame him for that).
JMO

He's basically damned if he does, damned if he doesn't. If he suddenly clams up a lot of people will think a-ha! while some think his constant talking is also a sign of guilt. He can't win at the moment. But I agree his panic can be viewed through either lens.

 

[Chimera]

It’s possible but there’s too many different versions for a ‘one size fits all’ explanation’. The step-dad mentioned nothing about the youngest child breast-feeding or even eating, said the “baby” was sleeping.

‘The house is just silent’: Stepdad speaks out as exhaustive search for missing N.S. children enters fifth day

The stepfather of two missing children in a rural area of Nova Scotia’s Pictou County is speaking out as the exhaustive search for the children enters its fifth day.

www.ctvnews.ca

“We were in the room laying down -- me, Maleyha and the baby Meadow -- and Lily poked her head in a couple times. I seen that she’s wearing a pink T-shirt. And we usually don’t like them to be too loud, because they were going to wake up the baby. We want the baby to get as much sleep as possible,” he says.“

Nothing yet about sar dogs ?

 

[Allabouttrial]

Mom said that the kids went out to play....but she also said she didn't hear them go out. So why did she state that they did?

It's possible the sliding door was left open and they weren't in the house so mum assumed they'd gone out to play. Also, maybe their boots are usually left by the sliding door and they were missing.

Mum:

we're looking outside, we're looking everywhere yelling for them.

 

[branmuffin]

Bolded for focus.

I don't see this statement? Thanks.

https://www.ckdr.net/2025/05/05/116769/#

 

[swanniee11]

I have a question, did his mother and brother search as well, that would be 4 people IMO

 

[sunflowermomma]

I feel like 6 is kind of old for "wandering" but maybe I'm taking the term too literally. Maybe going somewhere with a specific intention - ie trying to walk to the park or something - but not just toddling off not realizing that they're leaving home. MOO.

 

[ttjo]

Four square kilometres is a huge area but there have been quite a few searches in the past couple of years where children younger than these two as well as around the same age that traveled incredible distances. One most recently was seven miles away from his starting point. According to one psychiatrist, who spoke about an American child found nearly 5 miles from home, said children that age have no concept of turning back so they just keep moving forward. I'm trying to find the link but it's escaping me. It was a little boy who was Hispanic who went missing about 3 years ago in the US.

was it this case?

'It's a miracle,' mom says of man who found lost son in the woods

Man says divine intervention led him to lost toddler Christopher Ramirez in the Texas woods.

abcnews.go.com

 

[MistyWaters]

Nothing yet about sar dogs ?

SAR dogs (search and rescue) won’t be needed any more but it wouldn’t surprise me if cadaver dogs are brought in.

 

[dotr]

May 7, 2025
Robert Parker, the warden of Pictou County, N.S., where two children have been missing since May 2, tells Hanomansing Tonight his community is generally in agreement that the searchers have ‘done everything they could possibly do’ to try to find Lily Sullivan, 6, and Jack Sullivan, 4.

 

[musicaljoke]

I have a question, did his mother and brother search as well, that would be 4 people IMO

Someone would have to watch the baby.

 

[branmuffin]

was it this case?

'It's a miracle,' mom says of man who found lost son in the woods

Man says divine intervention led him to lost toddler Christopher Ramirez in the Texas woods.

abcnews.go.com

Yes! I just wish I could find the blurb about what the child psychologist said about children and how they respond when lost.

 

[IzzyBlanche]

Only just got round to doing the presser.

[snipped for space]

Thank you SO MUCH. This had to have taken a lot of time and effort and I appreciate it.

So LE does not think the children are alive. How dreadfully sad.

 

[swanniee11]

Someone would have to watch the baby.

Not if the mother was calling LE like she said. I"m not saying anything about anyone I'm just asking if they ever go over to his mom/brothers place saying "kids are missing help us?

 

[Snoopster]

As a local, this is breaking everyone's heart.

In case it's helpful for understanding our forested areas, we had Hurricane Fiona pass through in 2022. She brought down so many trees, to this day the volume of dead fall in northern & central Nova Scotia is astonishing. The forest in my back yard is full of half fallen trees caught on the trunks or crowns of those still standing while their fully fallen neighbours lay in twisted piles.

I can't imagine how hard this has been for the responding Ground Search and Rescue teams. Add the speed and depth of local waterways in spring, the hard rains we've had in the last few days, and the rough terrain; these highly skilled and dedicated volunteers out searching are truly the best of us.

This cbc article published after the storm highlights the tangled mess left in the Pictou County woods:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/storm-fiona-impact-foresters-farmers-1.6606843

Welcome to Websleuths @CreepingButtercup ! I just wish it wasn't under these conditions. We are all so, so worried about these two children.

I appreciate you sharing your local perspective. I wouldn't have known the extent of the 'mess' that still exists in the hurricane aftermath. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

 

[IzzyBlanche]

https://www.ckdr.net/2025/05/05/116769/#

Thank you, I reread the article for at least the sixth time and while it says he said he searched the property, he does not in this article say he did it in an hour.

 

[itsdev]

This case is giving me major Summer Wells vibes. It’s so hard to think about these lost babies. I can’t imagine.

 

[ttjo]

Thank you, I reread the article for at least the sixth time and while it says he said he searched the property, he does not in this article say he did it in an hour.

could it be this: I thought she said when they noticed they were gone she had the " instinct to immediately call 911" and he said he searched everywhere before the cops arrived. Maybe thats where the hour comes in?

 

[abanddb123]

Yes. They were aware of something they were admittedly unaware of because they were sleeping. Seems odd.

From what I gather there was approximately a 2 to 4 hour window from the parents last seeing them and calling the police at 10 am. According to the timeline and parent's story.

I'm just curious, how do you figure?

 

[IzzyBlanche]

could it be this: I thought she said when they noticed they were gone she had the " instinct to immediately call 911" and he said he searched everywhere before the cops arrived. Maybe thats where the hour comes in?

Could be. I'm sure branmuffin will reply at some point to explain what they meant by "an hour."

 

[Fabled Automatic]

I'm just curious, how do you figure?

A few pages back someone shared an article that stated the parents claimed the kids had come into the bedroom some time after sunrise. The sun rose at 5:56am in Pictou County last Friday, May 2. The parents contacted LE about their missing children around 10am that morning. So, at some point between 'after sunrise' and nearing 10am is when the children were allegedly last seen by the parents.

2025 Sun Graph for Pictou