Body in river identified as missing boy
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WINNIPEG – The mother of Nathaniel Thorassie says police have told her they have recovered remains of her six-year-old son, who fell through the ice on the Red River in early December.
McLaine Flett addressed reporters outside her Point Douglas home Monday morning, before leaving in tears. She thanked the divers who searched for her son.
Part of Nathaniel’s body has yet to be discovered, she said.
“Hopefully… they do find my son so we can have this closure,” she said. “That’s what I am hoping and praying all night and all morning.”
Nathaniel and his brother, Ralph Chartrand, Jr., 10, were playing on the Red River in early December when they fell through the ice. Ralph was pulled to safety by a teenaged boy who was driving by, but Nathaniel never surfaced.
The Winnipeg police dive unit and a team of volunteers plumbed the river for weeks after his disappearance.
On Sunday police divers were called to a secluded stretch of the Red River near the 2100 block of Henderson Highway about human remains called in the river. Police have not yet commented on the discovery.