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Family holds out hope of finding Quebec teen who disappeared 10 years ago
MONTREAL — Just before 8 a.m. on the morning of Feb. 10, 2009, David Fortin asked his mother, Caroline Lachance, to drive him to school. After she said she couldn’t, the teen didn’t insist. Instead, he put on his warm red winter jacket and walked away from his home in Alma, 230 kilometres north of Quebec City, towards the bus stop that would bring him to school. He was never seen again.
“I heard the door close and I saw he left,” Lachance said in a recent interview. “I noticed he was leaving five or 10 minutes earlier than usual, but I never thought it was the last time I’d see my son.”
Next Sunday will mark exactly 10 years since the brown eyed, brown haired 14-year-old, who would today be 24, disappeared without a trace.
Lachance and the boy’s father, Eric Fortin, have never stopped looking for their oldest son. His mother remains convinced that he fled the relentless bullying she said he suffered at school.