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Cecilia Zhang
[[Image:cecilia.jpg|right|frame|Photo of Cecilia Zhang]]

'''Dong-Yue Zhang''' (張東嶽, [[Hanyu Pinyin]]: ''Zhāng Dōngyuè'', [[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]], [[2003]] and before 8:30 a.m. on [[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.

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An e-mail message was circulated through a chain of forwarding, to try to raise awareness.

The website [http://www.ceciliazhang.org ceciliazhang.org] was created by the family to provide information on the girl, and to provide an "absolutely untraceable" text box to put forth information.

A segment about Cecilia ran on ''[[America's Most Wanted]]'' on [[November 1]], 
[[2003]]. The day after, thirteen fresh tips were turned over to police; still this didn't give detectives any definitive leads.

Police encouraged the kidnappers to return Cecilia during Santa Claus Parade, an annual event held in downtown Toronto in late November. As there are typically thousands of kids along the parade route, this would be an opportune time for the kidnappers to release Cecilia, without drawing any attention to themselves.  However, the event passed without her return.

==Finding of remains==
On [[March 28]], [[2004]], police confirmed that remains, discovered by a hiker in a [[Mississauga, Ontario|Mississauga]] wooded ravine, were those of Cecilia Zhang. A winter thaw exposed the evidence; remains which seem to have been idle for quite some time. Peel Regional Police called in national forensic experts and stated that "this is now a homicide investigation."

==Arrest and trial==
At a press conference on [[July 22, ]], [[2004]], police noted that the investigation was global, involving the [[RCMP]], Vancouver Police, [[FBI]], and police in mainland China. The conference was not without public criticism mainly due to the emotional comments made by the Peel Regional Police Chief Noel Catney. At the time, Catney, who was appearing live on television, held a photograph of 21-year-old Min Chen, a man who was then accused of murder but had not yet been put on trial, stating that "he is not just a murderer. This is the most despica(contracted; show full)[[Category:1994 births|Zhang, Cecilia]]
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