A 17-year-old boy is facing attempted murder charges in connection with an assault on a young girl that initially was suspected to be an animal attack in a small community west of Ottawa. The assault has left the child in the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) issued an advisory urging parents to keep young children indoors after a missing eight-year-old was found on June 25 in Quadeville, southeast of Barry’s Bay, with what appeared to be serious injuries caused by an animal attack, police said in a Facebook post.
Officers initially thought the girl’s injuries may have been inflicted by an animal, but testing of samples taken from the victim’s wounds has since revealed no traces of animal DNA, police said….