Fugitive dad arrested for sexual assault, other charges
A father has been arrested and two Nova Scotia children who were taken to Newfoundland months ago without their mothers’ permission are being returned.
Christine Carman of Bramber, Hants County, confirmed that the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary found the sixyear-old girl and a younger halfsibling in St. John’s and arrested the children’s father on Sunday.
“I haven’t seen (my daughter) since January,” Carman told The Chronicle Herald Monday. “Const. Hickey said, ‘You need to get your documents together and come get your little girl.”
Glen William Allen Dunphy, 45, who also uses the name Phoenix Knight, is father to both children.
He fled to Newfoundland while evading outstanding warrants for assault, sexual assault, and forced confinement of an adult female, taking the children with him.
After searching separately, the mothers got together Sunday.
“Yesterday was the first time I met the little boy’s mom,” Carman said Monday.
“It was heartbreaking. I watched this woman get out of the cab, when she found out I was in the city looking for my little girl, and come to me with wide open arms, not knowing me, me not knowing her, and it was instant,” Carman said.
“We were two moms who were looking for the same end result.”
Dunphy had no fixed address, and Carman didn’t know which province he was in, but travelled to Halifax to put up posters and search places he had been known to frequent.
“It went to social media. People in Newfoundland got hold of it. They spoke up and the RNC became involved,” she said.
Nova Scotia RCMP had declined to issue an amber alert, because the children were with their father, she said.
Const. Patrick Hickey of the RNC told Carman that the children are together in a home in Newfoundland until they can be reunited with their mothers.
Police in St. John’s released details of the arrest Monday.
They said Dunphy is wanted on charges of sexual assault, unlawful confinement as well as a number of assault charges dating back to 2015.