It’s taken almost five months but a Toronto mother who travelled to northern India earlier this year in search of her abducted son is finally bringing him back to Canada.
Tonight, North York resident Camila Vilas Boas and her four-year-old son Valentino will be boarding a Toronto-bound plane in Delhi, India. They’re set to arrive at Pearson airport early Thursday morning.
Back on Jan. 31, Boas went to India’s Chandigarh region after learning that her son was in that area with his father Kapil Sunak.
Boas hadn’t seen Valentino since July 18, 2024 when he went on a court-sanctioned trip to the south Asian nation with her former spouse. The two failed to return home as expected on Aug. 8, prompting Toronto Police Service (TPS) to issue a warrant last October for Sunak’s arrest for abduction by parent/custody order. He is still wanted by police for these charges, TPS told CP24 earlier this week.
“Investigators have advised it is believed Kapil Sunak is still in India at this time. He is not currently in police custody,” they wrote in an email.
Fearing that she may never see her child again, Boas took matters into her own hands, gathering resources, and using the power of social media to appeal for information about Valentino’s whereabouts, she said.
“To be honest, I didn’t put my life on hold, I died,” a tearful Boas said of her decision to go to India and search for her son during a recent interview with CP24.
“Not knowing if my child was alive, if he slept, if he missed mommy, where he was, what he was doing. … I was dead.”
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