Daunting Task: Sask. mother continues search for missing daughter
One year later and Paula Bali doesn’t know anything more about her daughter’s disappearance than the day she went missing.
“Devastating is an understatement. Your whole life falls apart,” Bali told paNOW. “You know the character of your child…so you know when something really wrong has happened.”
Bali says the day Mekayla went missing started like any other. She dropped her then 16-year-old daughter off at school the morning of April 12, 2016 and went to work. A timeline of Mekayla’s actions shows she left school shortly after arriving. She made brief stops in a pawn and bargain shop and a bank before walking to a nearby Tim Hortons. She returned to Sacred Heart High school around noon for a few minutes and then went to the STC bus terminal in Yorkton. She purchased lunch at a restaurant there and was last seen leaving the bus depot around 1:45 p.m.
“Mekayla wasn’t using drugs. She didn’t party or go out. She had an extremely quiet life. So, for her to just go off the grid doesn’t make any sense…but when there is no information you’re desperate for any information and we have followed up on a lot of info that is far-fetched,” Bali said.