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When Black Boys Go Missing: Part Two: How I Got My Son Back

Dundas, Camille

The tentacles of Ontario’s drug trade are far-reaching. In bedroom communities all across the Greater Toronto Area, Black teenage boys are being lured to remote Ontario towns where they are used by dangerous criminals and discarded once police catch them. 

We connected with a Durham, Ontario father on Instagram after seeing a comment he made about the group of five missing Black boys whose disappearance became a viral news story. He says he lived this nightmare several years ago and is sharing every detail he can remember, because he doesn’t want to see another family go through it. Names have been changed to protect the identity of the youth and their family. 

When Black Boys Go Missing: Part Two: How I Got My Son Back
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