Police have many questions for a man who disappeared after his daughter died in a dog attack outside his central Ontario farmhouse over the weekend.
Investigators want to know why Andrew Sibthorpe allowed his four-year-old daughter Kyra-Lee to scamper on the grass with a rottweiler and a Labrador crossbreed on Sunday afternoon.
They also want to know why the 30-year-old wasn't outside his home in Woodland Beach, Ont., to watch his daughter.
And when he noticed little Kyra-Lee had been mauled and left bleeding in a field, why didn't Mr. Sibthorpe call police? Why did he drive away?
"Mr. Sipthorpe can probably answer a lot of unanswered questions for us," said Constable Cathy Marchand of the Ontario Provincial Police. He's also wanted for breaking bail conditions.
While questions remain, police did release some more details about the child's death yesterday.
Investigators believe the girl was attacked by at least one of the dogs, one of which is a family pet. The other belongs to Mr. Sipthorpe's friend.
Mr. Sipthorpe called neighbours around 4 p.m. after noticing that Kyra-Lee had been attacked, police said, and he waited for them inside his rented farmhouse.
He assured the neighbours that he would meet police at Huronia District Hospital about 20 kilometres away in Midland and left the area. It was a neighbour who finally called 911.
But Mr. Sipthorpe never showed up at the hospital. Rumours circulated that he had been killed in a car accident, though investigators' checks of recent accidents in the region came up empty.
The child lived with her mother, Azure-Dee Todd-Cassell, 26, and was visiting her father.