CANADA David Fortin, 14, Montreal, Que. 10 February 2009

[dotr]

Family holds out hope of finding Quebec teen who disappeared 10 years ago
February 3, 2019 4:04PM EST
MONTREAL - Just before 8 a.m. on the morning of Feb. 10, 2009, David Fortin asked his mother, Caroline Lachance, to drive him to school. After she said she couldn't, the teen didn't insist. Instead, he put on his warm red winter jacket and walked away from his home in Alma, 230 kilometres north of Quebec City, towards the bus stop that would bring him to school. He was never seen again.

“I heard the door close and I saw he left,” Lachance said in a recent interview. “I noticed he was leaving five or 10 minutes earlier than usual, but I never thought it was the last time I'd see my son.”

Next Sunday will mark exactly 10 years since the brown eyed, brown haired 14-year-old, who would today be 24, disappeared without a trace.

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Missing Quebec teenager David Fortin is shown in a handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Reseau Enfants-Retour MANDATORY CREDIT

Lachance and the boy's father, Eric Fortin, have never stopped looking for their oldest son. His mother remains convinced that he fled the relentless bullying she said he suffered at school.

 

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After he disappeared, Fortin's parents revealed he had been bullied. The night before he disappeared, he complained that someone was threatening to hurt him.

Living nightmare
Lachance told reporters even if the chances are low, she still holds out hope that Fortin will return.

"I often tell myself one day I'll wake up, and it was a nightmare – that I never lived through the last seven years. I hope, I hope that David, wherever he is, that he comes back, and I can hold him in my arms," she said.

• Anti-bullying campaign marks anniversary of David Fortin's disappearance

Anyone with information about Fortin's whereabouts is asked to contact Quebec provincial police at 1-800-659-4264 or the Missing Children's Network at 1-888-692-4673.

 

[glamourkitty1922]

Does this mean he was bullied? I hate bullies. They seem to be everywhere, both in real life and on the internet. I've gotten to the point that I just leave when the mean people arrive at a forum. But there is no way to do that in real life if you have to be on a school bus or attend school. How horrible.

 

[lindamichelle1]

Ten years after vanishing, David Fortin's family still holds out hope for his return

Sunday marks exactly 10 years since then 14-year-old David Fortin went missing.

montreal.ctvnews.ca

Ten years after vanishing, David Fortin's family still holds out hope for his return​

Nothing else I can find after this Feb 10, 2019 article.

 

[Megsc]

David Fortin est toujours introuvable 15 ans plus tard, mais ses proches en savent plus

"Fifteen years after the disappearance of David Fortin, his family has become aware of new information in recent months. This information does nothing to ease the pain of the loved ones of the young Almatois who disappeared without a trace. The family of this bullied teen still has no idea what happened to him, but they have learned more about the hours leading up to his disappearance.

On February 10, 2009, David Fortin left the family home to go to school. He had to board the school bus to go to Camille-Lavoie secondary school in Alma. He was not seen in the vehicle or at school.

Since then, thousands of tips have been passed to authorities, but there is still no trace of this boy who was 14 years old at the time of his disappearance.

At the family's request, a re-evaluation of the file was carried out by the disappearances and unresolved files division of the Sûreté du Québec in recent months. His family was able to learn more about an event that occurred the day before his disappearance.

Those close to David Fortin say they were never informed of the severity of the acts of intimidation. [It was] as much physical as verbal, something very intense which happened with young people at school, specifies the teenager's mother, Caroline Lachance.

The police would not have wanted to tell her more and she would not have wanted to know more. So, David Fortin's mother does not know what was said or what was done, just that it was horrible.

Caroline Lachance admits: she would have preferred not to be informed since she has felt more suffering since then."


Seems clear to me that those bullies had something to do with David's disappearance! LE probably doesn't have enough evidence to prove it tho.... What a sad case