Efforts to locate a missing Woodstock, Ont., girl will focus on the hundreds of tips that have poured in to police over the last couple of days, according to the town's mayor.
Eight-year-old Victoria (Tori) Stafford was last seen leaving her school, Oliver Stephens Public School, on Wednesday afternoon.
A surveillance video captured images of Tori around the time she went missing, walking with a woman who local police indicate is a "person of interest."
Since her disappearance, hundreds of local volunteers, in addition to police, have scoured the region looking for signs of the girl.
On Saturday, officials were preparing to follow up on the "hundreds of leads" that have been phoned in to police, said Woodstock Mayor Michael Harding.
"Every resource that we have has been turned toward this little girl's safe return," Harding told 麻豆影视net early Saturday afternoon.
According to Harding, a number of police forces in the area, including London and Kitchener-Waterloo, have offered their assistance to officers in Woodstock, which is about 125 kilometres southwest of Toronto.
Meanwhile, Tori's father said that his daughter's disappearance has been turned his life upside down.
"It's killing me," said Rodney Stafford Saturday. "(I want to) let her know that I love her and I'll see her soon. One way or another I'll see her soon."
As the search for Tori enters its third day, Harding said local parents are becoming increasingly anxious about the safety of their children.
"Everyone that has raised children or has children probably is in an anxious state at the moment," Harding said. "Of course as it goes on longer I think that anxiety level increases."
Jason Gardyne, a father of three, told The Canadian Press that since Tori's disappearance, he hasn't let his children walk home alone from school.
"I've lived here all my life -- 34 years -- and I've never heard anything like that," he said while out with his seven-year-old daughter.
Community members have been invited to a candlelight vigil that is planned for Sunday at 8 p.m.
Anyone with information about Tori's disappearance is asked to contact Oxford Community Police at 519-421-2800.
Tori is about 4'5", 62 pounds and has blue eyes and short blonde hair.
She was last seen wearing a denim skirt, a green shirt and a black Hannah Montana jacket with a fur-lined hood.
The girl's family has established a $10,000 reward for the child's safe return. And on Saturday, an anonymous donor from Montreal added $5,000 to that reward.
With files from The Canadian Press
