Canada- Loc Phu “Jay” Le, 41, wanted in parental abduction investigation of 3 yr old child taken to Vietnam, 7 February 2024

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https://www.tps.ca/media-centre/news-releases/59568/

51 Division
Case #: 2024-346712
Published: Tuesday, May 7, 2024, 1:13 PM
The Toronto Police Service is requesting the public’s assistance locating a man wanted in a Parental Abduction investigation.
It is alleged that:

• on Wednesday, February 7, 2024, a man flew to Vietnam with his 3-year-old child
• the man and his child were scheduled to return to Canada on Thursday, February 15, 2024
• the man and the child have not returned, and the child has been withheld from his mother since that time

Loc Phu “Jay” Le, 41, is wanted on a Canada Wide Warrant for:

1. Abduction In Contravention Of Custody Order

He is described as 5'10", 190 lbs., with short black hair.

 

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Mother undertakes desperate search for missing son in Vietnam

Heather McArthur last saw her son, Jacob, on February 7th. Since early April she's been in Vietnam searching for her son in a city of nine million people.

toronto.citynews.ca

Toronto police have issued a Canada-wide warrant for Le for parental abduction, telling CityNews in a statement “At this time, we’re hoping someone in Canada or internationally will see this picture, reach out to the father and add that pressure to return the child to his mother in Canada.”

“It’s also been identified that they travelled to Vietnam with another man. And so I’m urging police to release the identity of that person,” she said.''

 

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Mother undertakes desperate search for missing son in Vietnam - Google Search

 

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Jan. 1, 2025 rbbm

Rosie DiManno: ‘I miss everything about him’: She spent the holidays missing her son — caught in the agonizing limbo of ‘parental abduction’

It’s been 335 days since Heather McArthur last saw her son.

www.thestar.com

Jacob left Canada early last February, with his father, Loc Phu “Jay’’ Le, to celebrate the Lunar New Year in Vietnam. It was a trip his mother didn’t want the boy to take, but she had no choice. A judge had ordered the child turned over to his dad, permitting the travel.
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“How did I get through the holidays? I just let myself be really sad. Felt all the pain, so that after the holidays I could get up and walk forward. I felt everything I had to feel so that I could keep going. That’s what I’m doing into the new year.’’
Except for one photo that was obtained by a private detective McArthur hired in Vietnam — Jacob shirtless and shoeless, squeezed onto a scooter between two unknown women — taken shortly after the boy and his father arrived in Ho Chi Minh City, the child has been rendered a ghost.
“They won’t even give me proof of life.’’

''McArthur accused Le of violence toward herself and the child. “I had a cervical neck fracture from a black eye that he had given me. He attempted to strangle me against the bedroom door.’’
Le, says McArthur, was charged but he filed two emergency motions last January that were granted, allowing Le to take Jacob on what he’d agreed would be a one-week trip before the stalled criminal matter was scheduled for trial.''