THUNDER BAY -- Keirsten Sagutch is waiting for a phone call she’s scared to receive.
Her mother, 42-year–old Pauline Jean Kireto, has been missing for nearly a month now. She was last seen Oct. 15 at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre around 9 a.m.
Since then, Sagutch and her family have been searching for her. On Wednesday, around 20 Thunder Bay police officers started a ground search in a wooded area just North of the hospital.
Sagutch said she’s mad that it took police, who say they started the search after exhausting their leads, took so long to start the search.
“I’m not trying to bash them or anything I’m just kind of mad. Why now?,” she said Wednesday afternoon.
She asked police if she could help search but was told she wasn’t allowed. Instead, Sagutch was told that she would receive a call sometime Wednesday evening.
“Shouldn’t I be allowed to know how the search is going?” she asked. “I’m her daughter.”
Sagutch said it’s been a rough month. Although she’s trying to stay positive, the length of her mother’s disappearance makes her think the worst has happened. He mother has disappeared before but not for so long and especially without contacting anyone.
“I’m losing hope I’m hoping that she’s with somebody,” she said.
Kireto has also been without medication. With conditions like epilepsy, Sagutch said her mother could suffer an attack without her pills.
“She’s disoriented out there,” she said.
Kireto is described as five-feet-one-inch tall with a medium build.
She has short dark brown hair and a tattoo of cards with a rose on her right arm and a tattoo of scissors with a rose and a name tag on her left arm.
Police say she has a tendency to speak very quickly.
Anyone with information about the whereabouts of Kireto is urged to call local police at 684-1200 or Crime Stoppers at 623-8477.
