Ontario mother’s battle to bring son home from Vietnam reaches 546 days
Global News
Jacob's mother Heather McArthur is waiting for the day her son returns home to Toronto from Vietnam after 546 days away.
Everything in Jacob Le’s room is as he left it before he went on a trip with his father to Vietnam, nearly a year and a half ago.
His bright yellow truck is parked in the corner of the bedroom, a pile of stuffed animals, including his favourite teddy bear, sits on the edge of his bed and his paintings are displayed proudly all around the downtown Toronto apartment.
Jacob’s mother, Heather McArthur, is waiting for the day her son returns home after 546 days away.
“It’s the littlest moments when I walk around now and I see a mother with her child looking at a flower, and just remembering those moments with my son and what he brought to my life and how much of him is missing, and how much of this doesn’t make sense to me,” said McArthur.
Jacob’s father, Loc Phu “Jay” Le, took him to Vietnam in February of 2024 to supposedly celebrate Lunar New Year as part of a vacation cleared by the courts, McArthur explained, but he never returned to Canada.
Toronto police released an image of Jacob’s father on May 7 and requested the public’s help in locating him as he was “wanted in a parental abduction investigation.”
Le, 41, is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for abduction in contravention of a custody order.
McArthur has travelled back and forth from Toronto to Ho Chi Minh City multiple times in search of her son.
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