FATHER SLASHED INFANT DAUGHTER'S THROAT
Merv
Alexis Currie bled to death in wooded field
By IAN ROBERTSON -- Toronto Sun
CLAREMONT -- Little Alexis Currie bled to death a week ago today after her
throat was cut in a wooded clearing near here, Toronto Police told her mom
last night.
The chatty, blue-eyed two-year-old was the focus of an intense police
ground, air and water search after Maureen Currie reported her youngest
missing Monday.
Acting on information given to detectives late Wednesday, Staff-Insp. Bruce
Smollet said police switched their search from the Scarborough Bluffs to a
6-square-km farm area northeast of Pickering.
TINY BODY
At 12:06 p.m. Thursday -- almost exactly five days from the time police
believe she was murdered -- a 41 Division officer with the Public Safety
Unit found the tiny body.
Alexis was still wearing the blue jeans, diapers and bright-pink spring
jacket that she was wearing when last seen by her mother, a police source
said.
Homicide investigators who attended a four-hour autopsy at the Hospital for
Sick Children yesterday emerged saying only that the toddler died of
"sharp-force trauma to the neck."
A source said she bled to death.
Det. Graham Hanlon said he and partner Det.-Sgt. Reg Pitts will review all
the evidence and consult with a Crown attorney before deciding on what
charges to bring against the key suspect in the death.
Until yesterday, police would only say Alexis was found near the edge of
Westney Rd., north of the 5th Concession near Claremont. But at 6 p.m.,
after telling Maureen Currie the specifics of Alexis' death, Pitts and
Hanlon returned to the sideroad where the tot's body was found.
With forensic investigator Det.-Const. Ross Lindsay, the officers stepped
through an opening in a wire fence and walked along a well-used trail.
For about 10 minutes, they re-examined undisclosed clues in an open
clearing surrounded by fir trees and scrub brush.
The site, about 15 metres east of the sideroad, was where Alexis' body lay
in the open for five days.
Earlier yesterday, Maureen Currie and sister Robyn, 4, left their
Greendowns Dr. home and formally identified the child's body at the city
morgue.
"The family had a very traumatic and difficult time this morning in dealing
with the identification," Sgt. Jim Muscat said after post-mortem results
were released.
It was the first time that Maureen, 40, had set eyes on Alexis since early
last Saturday, when she dropped her and Robyn off at the Scarborough Access
Centre for a planned half-day visit with their father, her estranged husband
Peter Currie.
LEFT AT PARK
The two sisters were supposed to have been returned to the province-run
centre before 6 p.m. Saturday. Instead, Robyn was dropped off at a park near
her grandparents home and ran to their door on Sunday night. Maureen called
police the next morning to report her husband had breached conditions of the
court document by not returning Alexis.
Peter last made the news when he and his brother Michael were fired as the
SkyDome timekeepers after a clock was prematurely stopped during a
basketball game that gave extra time to the 91-90 game-winning Portland
Trail Blazers over the Toronto Raptors.
He was charged Tuesday with abducting Alexis, and faces two weapons
offences. A van and a small knife seized by police are undergoing forensic
tests.
Det. Hanlon would not say if a murder weapon was found, saying "I cannot
confirm another crime scene." .
A fund has been set up for the family in Alexis' name at the CIBC, 1575
Ellesmere Rd., in Scarborough. Transit number is 05732, account 7338732.
DedNdogYrs
Dogs & children first.
Angie (cucci)
news:ArJk8.566$ue2....@read2.cgocable.net...
Thanks for the story Merv. I saw the father arrested after he was found and
wouldn't tell police where or what he did with his 2 yr. old. This is so
disturbing as the little girls mom was hoping she was dropped of at some
relatives or friends home. Alexis was such a cute toddler and I can't
understand why he killed her and then let the 4yr. old live. Such a sad
story. I don't like the way the Toronto Sun covers such cases IMO.
Angie
Jason Bereza
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> throat was cut in a wooded clearing near here, Toronto Police told her mom
May Peter Currie rot in hell. It's people like these which make me wish
Canada had a death penalty. I hope he gets his throat slashed just like what
he did to his daughter.
Leatrice Spevack
: Thanks for the story Merv. I saw the father arrested after he was found and
: wouldn't tell police where or what he did with his 2 yr. old. This is so
: disturbing as the little girls mom was hoping she was dropped of at some
: relatives or friends home. Alexis was such a cute toddler and I can't
: understand why he killed her and then let the 4yr. old live. Such a sad
: story. I don't like the way the Toronto Sun covers such cases IMO.
: Angie
What's wrong with how the Toronro Sun covers crime?
Leatrice
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