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Cecilia Zhang
{{current event}}[[Image:cecilia.jpg|right|frame|Photo of Cecilia Zhang]]

'''Dong-Yue Zhang''' (張東嶽), ([[March 30]] [[1994]] &mdash; [[October 20]] [[2003]]), known as '''Cecilia Zhang''', was a 9-year-old girl who went missing from her [[Toronto, Ontario]], [[Canada]] family home in fall 2003, making Canadian and international headlines. Her remains were found months later in [[Mississauga, Ontario]]. First-degree murder charges were laid in July 2004.

==Kidnapping==
Sometime after 10 p.m. [[October 19]] and before 8:30 am.m. [[October 20]], 2003, Cecilia Zhang was kidnapped from her family home in [[North York, Toronto, Ontario|North York]], an area in the north of [[Toronto, Ontario]]. Police presume that the kidnapper(s) entered through the window of her second floor bedroom, as the screen was broken the next morning. Police initially thought multiple kidnappers were involved.

On the other side of the Toronto area, two phone calls were made to the Zhang home, which were traced to different [[Brampton, Ontario|Brampton]] pay phones. These were made just minutes before her parent realized she was missing. Both calls were completely silent when answered.  Her disappearance was not noticed until Monday morning shortly before 8:30 am.m..

Neither the Zhangs nor police received ransom demands, and neither party had any contact with the abductors.

==Search effort==
On the day Cecilia was taken, a province-wide [[AMBER Alert]] was issued. Along with notifications running along the bottom of television screens, all highway signs alert motorists about the abduction, providing a description. The alert was called off a day later.

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[[Category:Canadian murder victims|Zhang, Cecilia]]
[[Category:Murdered children|Zhang, Cecilia]]
[[Category:Torontonians|Zhang, Cecilia]]
[[Category:Chinese Canadians|Zhang, Cecilia]]

[[fr:Affaire Cecilia Zhang]]