Vancouver police are seeking the public’s help in solving a mysterious case involving a possible assault of a two-year-old boy.
Const. Lindsey Houghton said investigators believe the assault may have happened last year inside a ground-floor apartment or basement suite somewhere in Metro Vancouver.
An out-of-province police agency investigating an unrelated file handed VPD investigators a cellphone video that shows the inside of a residence, along with information that two Somali men may have assaulted the toddler, he added.
“We don’t know who anyone involved in this is,” he said yesterday. “We don’t know who the boy is. If we can find out where this suite is, then we can go and look at occupancy records (and) speak to past tenants.
“Our primary concern is for the welfare of this child and we want to ensure that he is currently in safe hands,” Houghton said. “We have no reason to believe that the boy is currently in any danger.”
He said that for some reason the child was possibly in the care of the two men when the incident occurred. Houghton stressed the boy’s parents and known care providers are not suspects and that they may not even know about the possible assault.
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