The mother of a 15-year-old Mississauga, Ont., girl who went missing over the weekend said her daughter suffers from depression and her family is concerned for her safety.
“She was pulling away, apparently from some of her friends at school last week,” Sue Clark told Global News.
“She doesn’t have a lot of strong friend relationships. She’s a very private kid. And apparently she was seen eating lunch all by herself the last few days of school.”
Peel Regional Police issued a missing persons advisory on Tuesday after Soleil Fleury left her residence in the area of The Credit Woodlands and Dundas Street West on Nov. 5 around 10 p.m. and did not return home.
Const. Iryna Yashnyk told Global news that Fleury was reported missing by her family around 8 a.m. on Nov. 6.
Yashnyk said that at this point there is no evidence to suggest foul play, but that they are concerned for her well-being as “this is out of her normal behaviour to be missing for this long.”
Fleury’s family said they started a search party at Erindale Park in Mississauga on Wednesday with the hopes of finding clues about her whereabouts.
“It’s almost an unimaginable situation. I know that there are many other parents that have been through this,” Soleil’s father Mario Fleury said.
“I’m trying to stay focused because I need to stay focused or else we diminish our chances of finding my daughter.”
Soleils parents told Global News their daughter went missing once before but never for this long.
“That time in Burlington it was a hot day,” Clark said. “We found her within six hours. She was texting people. She was responding to texts and police picked her up and brought her home.”
Clark said she wrote a message on Facebook urging the public for help locating her daughter.
“I am about to bare my soul in the hopes that it gets my daughter home,” Clark wrote. “As some of you know, Soleil age 15 approx. 110 lbs. suffers with depression.”
Clark said her daughter left her father’s home on Sunday and the family has no way of contacting her.
“She has not turned on her phone,” Clark said. “We are terrified and feel completely lost as to where she might be. She does not have a peer support network. Please help us find her and bring her home.”
Soleil’s parents said she was a straight A student enrolled in an international baccalaureate at an Oakville school.
“We just hope somebody has seen her. She’s a very private person. She could be just hiding in a library,” Clark said.
“She submitted an assignment on Saturday night at midnight. I find it hard to believe that she would just disappear when she’s a straight A student.”
Fleury is described as Asian with light skin, five feet tall, around 110 pounds, straight black shoulder-length hair and a slim build.
She was last seen wearing her school uniform which consists of a burgundy kilt, grey knee-length socks and a navy sweater.
Her parents said she has a bank account but there has been no activity in the past three days.
“She has a fair bit of money in her bank account. But it’s a sub account of mine. There really has not been any activity,” Fleury said.
“Things have been going so well for Soleil. She’s doing well in school. So certainly this was a big surprise to us.”
Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to call investigators at the 11 Division Criminal Investigation Bureau at 905-453–2121, ext. 1133 or Peel Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.
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