It’s 10 years to the day since the disappearance of young Quebec girl Cedrika Provencher, whose remains were finally found in December 2015.
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Various events are planned in her hometown of Trois-Rivières Monday to mark the anniversary of her disappearance.
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One of them was an announcement by Cedrika’s grandfather about the creation of a new non-profit research centre aimed at preventing child abduction.
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Henri Provencher told a news conference Monday the centre will foster innovation and new tools to prevent child kidnappings.
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According to RCMP statistics, abductions by strangers remain quite rare.
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The Mounties say 59 per cent of disappearances involving children in 2016 were solved within the first 24 hours, with the figure climbing to 92 per cent within a week.
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