The Villager

The news was music to Jennifer Plourde’s ears.

At exactly 9:17 a.m. today, she got a phone call from police telling her that her son, 18-year old Kyle Plourde, missing since June 16, has been found.

“I’m so excited, I’m leaving work early,” Plourde told The Villager just two hours later. “He’s okay, he was found safe.”

Plourde has yet to see her son. She was on her way to get a coffee earlier when her phone rang. It was the police calling to tell her that Kyle had been found in Hamilton.

“He’s off the missing list,” she said.

Plourde and her family and friends plastered the city with missing posters displaying a photograph of her son, one of six children, over the past month.

“He was my little porcelain doll,” Plourde said, describing him as a child in a previous interview.

She begged for anyone with any information to come forward. Plourde would like to thank everyone who helped in the search as well. She was especially concerned because Kyle is a special needs child, “very sweet, very loving, honest,” she said.

He was first thought to have disappeared on his way home from a friend’s house in the College Street and Lansdowne Avenue area, not far from his school, West Toronto Collegiate.