Murder of Cecilia Zhang
| Murder of Cecilia Zhang | |
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Cecilia Zhang, c. summer of 2003 | |
| Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Date | October 20, 2003 |
Attack type | Abduction and second degree murder |
| Deaths | 1 |
| Victims | Cecilia Zhang |
| Perpetrator | Min Chen |
| Cecilia Zhang | |||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 张东岳 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 張東嶽 | ||||||||
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Cecilia Zhang (also known as Dong-Yue Zhang; March 30, 1994 – October 20, 2003) was a nine-year-old child from Toronto, Ontario, Canada who went missing on October 20, 2003. After being missing for six months, her body was discovered by the Credit River in Mississauga on March 27, 2004. Min Chen, a Chinese citizen from Shanghai who was in Canada on a visa, was arrested. He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on May 9, 2006. Chen confessed that he was kidnapping for ransom and her death was accidental.