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Naiomi Almeida

December 8, 1995 – August 29, 2001
Naomi Almeida was 5 years old when she was abducted from her father’s home in London, Ontario in August 2001. She had been sleeping on the couch in her father’s ground floor apartment, and the patio door had been left open to cool the apartment. When her family awoke the next morning, Naomi was missing, and her bloodied underpants were found outside. Police organized a volunteer search of the area near her father’s home. That afternoon, teenager Thomas Hurst went to the London Police Station with his mother and step-father and turned himself in. Naomi was found in his mother’s apartment 1 block away from where she was abducted. She had been sexually assaulted and hidden in a duffle bag. Thomas Hurst is currently serving a life sentence for her murder, with parole eligibility after 25 years.