‘I’m feeling helpless’: mother fears for missing, pregnant daughter’s safety with fugitive

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Relatives of a missing Manitoba woman who is believed to be with a fugitive are becoming increasingly afraid and concerned about her well-being as each day passes.

Breanna Lee Hudson, 28, was reported missing after she and Shaquille MacFarlane, 29, left a home in Ile des Chênes in the early hours of Feb. 16, according to RCMP.

“Truth be told, I’m feeling helpless and, as the days pass, we’re more afraid,” Hudson’s mother, Crystal Loden, said Wednesday as the search neared its second week.

Loden, 44, believes her daughter, who is about four months pregnant, is in danger. She claims Hudson was in an abusive relationship and many aspects of her life were being controlled — from her actions to the people she communicated with.

She is worried her daughter will not receive the health care she needs if she isn’t found soon or does not go to a medical facility.

“She needs proper medical attention for her pregnancy,” said Loden.

Hudson has an eight-year-old daughter from a previous relationship.

“My main concern is to get my daughter home safe to her daughter. She has a child who needs her,” said Loden. “She would never leave her daughter.”

The girl wasn’t present when Hudson left Ile des Chênes last week. She hasn’t been told her mother is missing and believed to be with a man wanted by police, said Loden.

Hudson and MacFarlane are married and have been living in a condo in the community about 12 kilometres south of Winnipeg, her mother said.

There were no witnesses when the pair left the home, said Loden, who suspects her daughter was forced to leave.

RCMP said Wednesday they believe Hudson and MacFarlane, who has multiple warrants for his arrest, are travelling together.

Investigators believe they are still in the Winnipeg area.

“We have no information to suggest otherwise, but our major crime services continues to seek out any leads that may suggest they left the city,” spokesman Sgt. Paul Manaigre wrote in an email.

Two tips of possible sightings outside Winnipeg have not been corroborated, he said.

In their initial public appeal for information last Friday, police said MacFarlane may attempt to travel to Calgary and may be in a black pickup truck.

Manaigre said the truck has since been located.

“It’s quite possible they have access to another vehicle,” he wrote.

Loden is wondering if someone is hiding her daughter and MacFarlane. Police declined to speculate.

“Somebody knows something, and it’s really unfortunate they don’t see why it’s important to tell someone,” said Loden. “Anyone trying to protect her or Shaquille are not doing themselves any favours. They’re aiding and abetting a fugitive.”

She is urging people with information about her daughter or MacFarlane to call police or Crime Stoppers, which accepts anonymous tips.

RCMP said MacFarlane has warrants for his arrest for two counts of uttering threats and single counts of assault, extortion and obstruction of justice.

He is also wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for allegedly breaching bail conditions, according to police.

MacFarlane is 5’10” and 160 lbs., with brown hair and brown eyes.

Hudson is 5’4” and has brown hair and blue eyes.

Anyone with information about the whereabouts of Hudson and/or MacFarlane is asked to call St-Pierre-Jolys RCMP at 204-433-7433 or the nearest police service.

chris.kitching@freepress.mb.ca

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