January 29,2026
RED FM News Desk
The stepfather of two children missing for over eight months in Nova Scotia has been charged with sexual assault, assault, and forcible confinement involving an adult.
RCMP confirmed that 34-year-old Daniel Martell of Lansdowne, N.S., was arrested Monday morning by officers from the Pictou County detachment. He is scheduled to appear in Pictou provincial court on March 2. No further details have been released, and Martell was not immediately available for comment.
The two children, five-year-old Jack Sullivan and six-year-old Lilly Sullivan, were reported missing on May 2 by Martell’s common-law partner, Malehya Brooks-Murray, after they wandered away from their rural home north of Halifax. Extensive ground and air searches, including a search in October using cadaver dogs, have so far produced few clues about the children’s whereabouts.
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