CANADA Canada - Living female, unidentified AND missing, Toronto, 1 Oct 2018

[dotr]

Toronto Police Service :: News Release #42240

Case #: 2018-1818639
The Toronto Police Service is requesting the public's assistance identifying and locating a missing woman.

On Monday, October 1, 2018, a woman was admitted to hospital in the Coxwell Avenue and Mortimer Avenue area. While under medical care, during the early morning hours of Tuesday, October 2, 2018, the woman left. Her whereabouts and identity are unknown.

Police are concerned for her well-being.

 

[JDG]

How can you be admitted to hospital and they don't know who you are??
Something is amiss here. Perhaps its all the 'privacy' laws; so they cannot name her??

 

[TTF14]

How can you be admitted to hospital and they don't know who you are??
Something is amiss here. Perhaps its all the 'privacy' laws; so they cannot name her??

Well, in that first pic she looks like she could be developmentally disabled. Maybe she's non-verbal.

 

[JDG]

If she's a resident, she would have an OHIP card with her details on it.
Unless you are unconscious with no ID, they do have her name and hospital card information.

If she is non-verbal, someone would have presented her card for an admission or would have 'put up' some money if out of country visitors. They'd still want basic information is all I'm saying.

Her health concerns would fall under 'privacy' laws.

 

[Brubeck]

Something is amiss here.

This is an operable phrase about so many of these cases! My first thought often. +1

 

[TTF14]

If she's a resident, she would have an OHIP card with her details on it.
Unless you are unconscious with no ID, they do have her name and hospital card information.

If she is non-verbal, someone would have presented her card for an admission or would have 'put up' some money if out of country visitors. They'd still want basic information is all I'm saying.

Her health concerns would fall under 'privacy' laws.

Is there a way she could have been wandering alone without any ID?

 

[JDG]

This is an operable phrase about so many of these cases! My first thought often. +1

Too funny!

 

[Bit of hope]

You would think they know at least the color of her hair and eyes. Estimated height......sighhhh

 

[YaYa_521]

Has this person been identified? If not, here are three nearby U.S. potential matches. With the assumption that they have moved to Canada.

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The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

Google Maps

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The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

Google Maps

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The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

Her dates are off a bit but just in case there is an error...

Google Maps

 

[dotr]

Wonder if the woman was identified, cannot seem to find an update.

Toronto Police OPS on Twitter

 

[Laughing]

Looks like security camera images, but are her arms & legs unusually thin?

Is she holding that door open? Decades ago in a Psych class I remember video of residents in a mental hospital with a symptom called IIRC "waxy flexibility." The person had a way of holding an arm that was unusual. Hospital staff could gently guide that arm to a more typical position -- and over a few minutes the limb would gradually & gently move back....

JMHO YMMV

 

[annemc2]

Looks like security camera images, but are her arms & legs unusually thin?

Is she holding that door open? Decades ago in a Psych class I remember video of residents in a mental hospital with a symptom called IIRC "waxy flexibility." The person had a way of holding an arm that was unusual. Hospital staff could gently guide that arm to a more typical position -- and over a few minutes the limb would gradually & gently move back....

JMHO YMMV

You know, I actually only saw that once during my whole career and it was at my very first full time psych nursing job. It was fascinating. I'm pretty sure that at the same time we had a man on the unit that had cut off his penis. That hospital was intense.

I was thinking that she was probably someone brought in for a psych issue, didn't have ID/refused to give her name, and eloped. I hope she's okay.

 

[YaYa_521]

Hopefully you all will support me on this...TIA.

I reported this thread to administrators with a request to move the thread from Unidentified to Missing. I know she's technically unidentified but she's alive! I ask this mainly because some WSleuthers may avoid this board for personal reasons, hence it may not get as many views as is urgently needed.

Thanks for considering my request.

 

[mahoolin]

Looks to me like she might be pushing a buzzer to get in or out of a locked unit? I became familiar with having to be buzzed in and out of ER area with sick family member once they were actually put in a room.
Mhoo?