Jul. 3, 2005. 11:24 AM
LONDON FREE PRESS |
| Chatham’s Donovan Cordon Clubb disappeared Thursday. |
CHATHAM,
Ont. (CP) — Police say the missing Ontario toddler who was the subject of a
province-wide search is dead. Twenty-two month old Donny Gordon Clubb went
missing from his home in Chatham, Ont., Thursday.
He was the focus of an Amber Alert that lasted until Friday morning.
Police learned of the child's death after questioning 36-year-old Shawn Palmer, the boyfriend of the child's mother, Courtney Catton.
Palmer was arrested Friday at a house in Kitchener, but the young boy was not with him.
The case is now being investigated by Waterloo Regional Police.
The child's father had said Saturday he feared the worst when his son was not found with Palmer.
"I'm afraid that something's happened to him, you know?" an emotional Matt Clubb, 21, told The London Free Press.
"I'm scared for him."
Clubb said he has not seen his son since about February because of a court order.
The boy's 21-year-old mother made a tearful plea for her child's safe return at a media conference Friday.
She had been staying with her sister, who also lives in Chatham, and her sister said Catton's relationship with Palmer was over.
"They're not going to be a couple anymore," said Catton's sister.
"Shawn seemed to be a great guy, he's older, educated, turns out that it doesn't look like it anymore."
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