Murder of Cecilia Zhang | |
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Location | North York, Ontario, Canada |
Date | 20 October 2003 |
Attack type | Abduction and second degree murder |
Deaths | 1 |
Victims | Cecilia Zhang |
Perpetrator | Min Chen |
Cecilia Zhang | |||||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 张东岳 | ||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 張東嶽 | ||||||||
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Cecilia Zhang (also known as Dong-Yue Zhang; March 30, 1994 – October 20, 2003) was a nine-year-old child from North York, a district of Toronto located in Ontario, Canada who went missing on October 20, 2003.[1] After being missing for six months, her body was discovered by the Credit River in Mississauga on March 27, 2004. Min Chen, a Chinese citizen from Shanghai who was in Canada on a visa, was arrested. He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on May 9, 2006.[1] Chen confessed that he was kidnapping for ransom and her death was accidental.