Sascha Wil­son

While she still doubts the ac­cu­ra­cy of the DNA re­sults, the moth­er of Danette Pierre says it would take a “sick evil bas­tard” to mur­der her daugh­ter in that man­ner.

Try­ing to hold back the tears dur­ing an in­ter­view at her Ste Madeleine home yes­ter­day, Pierre, 63, seemed con­fused whether or not to ac­cept the re­sults of the DNA test which was done lo­cal­ly.

On Wednes­day, the po­lice broke the hor­rif­ic news to Pierre at her home that DNA sam­ples tak­en from her and Danette’s fa­ther were a pos­i­tive match to the charred re­mains found in Clax­ton Bay on the same night Danette went miss­ing.

Danette, 31, hus­tled out of her home around 8.30 pm on Jan­u­ary 28 af­ter re­ceiv­ing a phone call.

She left her chil­dren, ages 13, sev­en and 23 months old, in the care of her moth­er. She told her moth­er she was “mak­ing a turn” but would be back soon.

An hour lat­er, po­lice were alert­ed about a car on fire at Cedar Hill Road. They found a bad­ly burnt body in­side.

Pierre re­port­ed Danette—the youngest of her five chil­dren—miss­ing the fol­low­ing day.

While DNA sam­ples were tak­en from them on Feb­ru­ary 6, Pierre said the po­lice on­ly told her they were keep­ing the sam­ples on file.

She said, “It was nev­er dis­closed to me that they were go­ing to test that.”

Re­it­er­at­ing that she is con­tem­plat­ing hav­ing an­oth­er test done, not lo­cal­ly, but abroad, she said, “When I was giv­en that news, I say you all sure. With­in me I feel like I need a sec­ond opin­ion. I asked (the po­lice) what is the pro­ce­dure in go­ing about to get a sec­ond opin­ion. One minute it (re­sults) tak­ing three months, next minute you take less than two weeks to get this re­sults.”

Mean­while, she said Danette’s fa­ther and sis­ter went to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre yes­ter­day to arrange to have the re­mains moved to a fu­ner­al home.

Not­ing that Danette’s birth­day is on March 9, she said she would have some­thing to ho­n­our her on that day, but she has not de­cid­ed on the de­tails.

She said, “My chil­dren need clo­sure. That’s their ba­by sis­ter. I am not will­ing to ac­cept that clo­sure so fast be­cause some­where along the line some­thing is not in place. Some­thing not feel­ing right.”

Lament­ing that she has been left with many ques­tions, she said she was clue­less as to who would want to harm her daugh­ter.

“Who? Why? On­ly God alone knows. I have an­swers for that. I have no idea. What could be so wrong that you will take a moth­er away from her three chil­dren?” she ques­tioned.

She be­lieves that when her daugh­ter left home she thought she would have been able to han­dle the sit­u­a­tion.

“I think she thought what­ev­er it is she may be able to talk it out...She went and she did come back,” she said.

Pierre ad­vised peo­ple, par­tic­u­lar­ly young women, fac­ing dif­fi­cul­ties to con­fide in their par­ents.

“Maybe her (Danette) friends knew some­thing was amiss but mum­my was obliv­i­ous to what was go­ing on. I don’t know. It’s hard for me to ac­cept that a hu­man be­ing could hurt an­oth­er hu­man be­ing in that way. You are not a hu­man. You have to be a beast.”

Up to yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, no one was held for ques­tion­ing in con­nec­tion with her death.

Of­fi­cers of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions Re­gion 3 are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.