This teen was admitted to an anti-trafficking shelter to keep her safe. Then, she went missing

A mates from Flesherton, Ont., accidental a younker location that specializes successful combatting quality trafficking didn't bash capable to support their 15-year-old daughter, who went missing from the installation past month.

Laura McKenzie and Erik Dixon accidental they entrusted younker location Studio Blue astatine the Women's Centre Grey Bruce successful Owen Sound, Ont., with their daughter, Jillianne Dixon, who they accidental had antecedently been a unfortunate of online luring.

Less than 3 weeks into the program, she went missing. 

"Our hearts were pounding. It was terrifying," Dixon said astir the aboriginal greeting telephone from constabulary astir her disappearance past month.

The Owen Sound Police Service (OSPS) says it is investigating the disappearance on with constabulary units successful the Greater Toronto Area. OSPS accidental the teen was past seen astatine 8 p.m. section clip connected April 28. 

McKenzie, 40, and Dixon, 41, allege the younker location did not enactment connected a extremity it received astir Jillianne's plans to conscionable a antheral from Brampton days earlier she disappeared. The extremity came from another parent, but Jillianne's parents accidental they were not informed astir it by the younker home. 

They besides rise concerns astir oversight and information measures astatine the location being inadequate to support residents safe. 

CBC Toronto contacted the installation with a database of questions relating to the parents' concerns, including wherefore the younker location did not pass the parents astir the tip. In an emailed statement, the non-profit's enforcement manager said the enactment won't beryllium answering immoderate questions portion the disappearance remains nether constabulary investigation.

"Our thoughts are with Jillianne's household and we are hoping for her harmless return," Heather Sheldrick wrote.

Local constabulary are asking for nationalist assistance successful uncovering the teen and accidental she is believed to person known associations successful the Greater Toronto Area. 

McKenzie and Dixon accidental they are speaking retired due to the fact that they privation their girl to travel location safely, and to caution different parents with susceptible children.

"She went determination due to the fact that she was sick. That's what we were offered for our girl who was struggling with intelligence health, who was vulnerable," McKenzie said done tears. 

"We emotion her, we miss her terribly. We privation her home." 

Teen communicated with a antheral online: tipster 

During her enactment astatine the younker home, Jillianne befriended different teen nonmigratory from Owen Sound. The teen's mother, Christine St Coeur, told CBC Toronto Jillianne came implicit to her location connected the evening of April 22. She described Jillianne arsenic benignant and polite.

CBC Toronto is not naming St Coeur's girl to support her privateness arsenic she has antecedently been a unfortunate of quality trafficking. 

The adjacent day, St Coeur's girl asked via substance if St Coeur could thrust Jillianne and her to Brampton a fewer days later. CBC Toronto has reviewed the substance messages. 

St Coeur said she called the girls close distant and Jillianne told her she had been invited to a day enactment by a 20-year-old Brampton antheral she met online, who she referred to arsenic her boyfriend. 

"My effect … was that it's precise dangerous," St Coeur said. 

The ineligible property of consent successful Canada is 16, with an objection for 14- and 15-year-olds if their spouse is little than 5 years older. According to the national government's website, different factors whitethorn beryllium taken into relationship to find if a young idiosyncratic is being exploited, including if the narration developed implicit the internet. 

CBC Toronto has not been capable to independently place the antheral Jillianne was communicating with, oregon his age.

Organization didn't enactment connected extremity astir Jillianne being astatine risk, St Coeur says

Given what St Coeur knew astir Jillianne already being astatine hazard owed to intelligence wellness struggles and erstwhile online luring, she said she called the installation to alert them astir the dangers of Jillianne gathering a antheral she knows from societal media, but said the idiosyncratic did not look to instrumentality the extremity seriously.

Call logs reviewed by CBC Toronto amusement a 10-minute-long telephone betwixt St Coeur and the younker location astatine astir 8:30 a.m. connected April 24. 

Later that aforesaid day, McKenzie said she did a payment cheque with a societal idiosyncratic astatine Studio Blue and spoke with her daughter, but was not informed astir the extremity from St Coeur.

Jillianne was past seen 4 days later, connected April 28. 

"If we had immoderate thought that was going on, boom, I would person gone and got her," McKenzie said done tears. 

St Coeur said she contacted Jillianne's begetter connected Facebook a fewer days aft the teen went missing to stock the accusation she had. 

"It's conscionable horrific," Dixon said. "When they recovered retired that she was successful danger, they should person picked up the telephone close away, they should person called america and said, 'You request to travel prime up your daughter. Something horrible is going to hap if we don't intervene.'" 

St Coeur said she was disappointed to larn the installation didn't relay her extremity to the parents. 

Her girl has since near the programme and returned home, she said. "She feels precise blameworthy … she wishes she could person done much to halt her." 

Not capable information astatine younker home, parents allege 

The seven-bedroom home is advertised arsenic being a harmless spot that provides protection and intelligence wellness services for youth. And according to the younker home's declaration with Jillianne and her parents, unit were expected to execute country checks each displacement and interaction her parents if she was missing, followed by section police. 

Jillianne was past seen astatine 8 p.m. connected April 28, but McKenzie said she received the archetypal telephone from the structure much than 8 hours later, astatine 4 a.m, and past from the constabulary astatine astir 5 a.m. 

The installation besides has a compartment telephone policy, which CBC Toronto reviewed. It says residents volition lone person entree to facility-owned phones, which volition person pre-installed information features similar a determination tracking app, banned apps and unit having entree to passwords. 

However, Jillianne's parents accidental the location provided their girl with a compartment telephone without their knowledge, and without immoderate information features. They besides accidental it does not person an progressive SIM paper to marque oregon person telephone calls, meaning she would lone beryllium capable to usage it connected Wi-Fi.

"They withheld important accusation that would person stopped this from ever happening … accusation that's going to enactment my kid successful information and astatine risk," Dixon said.  

CBC Toronto asked astir these concerns and others successful email to the home, which it did not answer. 

The Women's Centre Grey Bruce is simply a non-profit enactment with an yearly fund of astir $2 million. According to its fiscal statements, astir 3 quarters of its backing comes from the provincial government. 

A spokesperson from the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services said it "requires each assemblage partners to person policies and procedures designed to support the safety, rights and well-being of the individuals who person services from them," but added the organizations are liable for their ain governance. 

Jillianne is 5 feet 6 inches tall, has medium-length reddish hairsbreadth and brownish eyes, according to a merchandise from Owen Sound constabulary connected May 16. 

She was past seen wearing escaped grey pants, a acheronian long-sleeved apical with airy circular designs and acheronian socks, with a lavender hard-shell Swiss Gear suitcase and a leopard people crossbody bag. 

Police are asking anyone with accusation to interaction section constabulary oregon Crime Stoppers.