Volunteer in missing children search urges caution against speculation on their fate – Halifax [Video]

A police investigation is continuing into the disappearance of two young children reported missing last week from their home in northeastern Nova Scotia.

On Wednesday, RCMP Staff Sgt. Robert McCamon, a senior major crime investigator, confirmed detectives have been involved in the case since last Saturday, a day after six-year-old Lily Sullivan and four-year-old Jack Sullivan are believed to have wandered from their rural home in Lansdowne Station, N.S.

McCamon said detectives are always involved in missing persons cases to determine if they are “suspicious in nature.”

The search was scaled back Wednesday after the RCMP said there was little chance the siblings could have survived after six days in a densely wooded area, about 20 kilometres southwest of New Glasgow, N.S.

Meanwhile, a volunteer who helped with the search is urging the public to avoid harmful speculation.