Update 7:51 p.m. Wednesday: Surete du Quebec and Ontario Provincial Police held a news conference. Click here for the story.
MONTREAL – A 3-year-old Montreal girl, missing since Sunday (June 15), has been found alive in Eastern Ontario after a massive four day police search.
Police say the girl was reported missing on Sunday afternoon by her mother.
Investigators say the girl’s mother, Rachel-Ella Todd, went into a store in Coteau-du-Lac, west of Montreal, and told staff she didn’t know where her daughter was.
Police had received tips the girl was seen in Eastern Ontario near St. Albert and Casselman on the same afternoon.
Quebec police say she was found by Ontario Provincial Police around 3 p.m. today after a drone spotted her along Highway 417 near St. Albert.
UPDATE @ 3:49pm: The OPP is happy to announce that Claire BELL, the missing three-year-old from Montreal, has been found alive and is well. She is being examined by medical personnel as a precaution. More details will be released later. We are working with the SQ to arrange a… pic.twitter.com/q7lixSyIG2
— OPP East Region (@OPP_ER) June 18, 2025
Quebec and Ontario police are expected to hold a news conference later today (June 18).
The girl’s mother has been charged with unlawful abandonment of a child.
Todd is expected to appear in court in Valleyfield on Friday (June 20).