Worried, the parents of Jade Fortier, a teenager who has been missing in Longueuil since Monday, denounce the lack of supervision in the place where she was staying, despite her runaway history.
“I feel really abandoned in there, like it’s no big deal [que ma fille se soit volatilisée] “Blows Pascale Smith on the phone.
It has been four days since the parents of 14-year-old Jade Fortier have heard from her. She ran away from the place where she was staying precisely because of her runaway history. But this time, his disappearance is much longer than the previous times, specifies Mme Smith, the girl’s mother.
Thursday evening, the Longueuil agglomeration police department (SPAL) asked for the public’s help in finding Jade Fortier, who could be in the company of another 15-year-old teenager, Zoee Monique Herb, also missing. The SPAL said it feared for the safety of the two young women.
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Zoee Monique Herb
“I feel really overwhelmed,” says Pascale Smith. I find it difficult, I feel all alone. »
“I thought they would protect her better than me”
For more than a year, the behavior of Jade Fortier has changed, explain the parents of the teenager to The Press. She made several runaways and death threats, having an opposing character. She started using cannabis. They did their best to frame her, swapping custody, trying to change schools, but to no avail.
“We ended up with a completely revolted teenager”, says the father* of the girl in an email. After an attempt to run away where he finds his daughter in extremis “with the help of the police to stop a bus”, the family decides that they are at the end of their resources.
Jade Fortier finds herself in a place of accommodation where her parents hope that she will finally be supervised for her behavioral problems.
However, this is not at all what is happening.
I thought they would protect her more than me, but there was more control in my house than there. She doesn’t even go to school, she stays in bed in the morning and they let her. And there are other runaways out there, they go off into the wild and they disappear!
Jade Fortier’s father
“They let her out, even if she’s there to run away,” adds Pascale Smith. She’s 14, she has no business outside in the middle of the night! If she’s there, it’s because I couldn’t manage to frame her properly. But I would not let her through the door like that, I would come between the two! »
Jade Fortier’s parents have contacted The Press to speak out against a system they believe has failed to protect their daughter.
For Pascale Smith, the question remains: “What do we do with [les adolescents] who are not criminals, but who are dangerous to themselves? »
* Jade Fortier’s father requested anonymity for fear of reprisals against his daughter.
Jade Fortier has long brown hair and brown eyes. When she disappeared, she was wearing gray sweatpants, a black sweater and yellow shoes. She speaks French.
Zoee Monique Herb has blonde hair and blue eyes and wore blue pants.
The SPAL is asking for the public’s help in trying to find the girls. Anyone who sees them is asked to contact 911.