The mother of a 13-year-old girl whose body was found in a Burnaby, B.C., park six years ago says her “heart was bleeding” when she found out that her daughter had died.
The woman, testifying though a Mandarin-language interpreter, says she searched for the girl at a nearby library and at the entrance to Burnaby’s Central Park, where her body would later be found.
The mother told the jury she thought she had to wait 24 hours to report her daughter missing because those are the rules in China.
But a friend told her that in Canada she should report her daughter missing right away.
She says she gave a recorded statement to police and was later told her daughter’s body had been found in the early hours of July 19, 2017.
“It was the darkest day for me,” she said.
The defence has not yet told the jury its theory of events.