HALIFAX, NS – The manhunt for the second man charged in the forcible confinement and sexual assault of a 16 year-old boy is being stepped up with RCMP releasing new photos of Wayne Alan Cunningham, 31.

Police say they still don’t know where he is, but early Wednesday, the OPP found the 2003 Hyundai Elantra they were looking for in connection with this case. It was abandoned on a logging road, 19 kilometres from the main highway, near the Northern Ontario town of Longlac.  

Nova Scotia RCMP are still working to have the other accused in the case, David James Leblanc, 47, transported back to Nova Scotia from Ontario. He was located in Northern Ontario earlier in the week. He was on a road about 250 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay, Ontario, wandering with no shoes and inadequate clothing for the near-freezing temperatures.

Leblanc is also charged with forcible confinement and sexual assault in the case that broke a week ago after a 16 year-old boy turned up at a home in Upper Chelsea, Lunenburg Co., half dressed and in chains, begging for help.

Court documents suggest the boy had been sleeping on the streets of Halifax when he was put in a van and driven to the home on Faulkner Road where he was then held against his will for two weeks.  

Police say Leblanc is in hospital under police guard, but for medical reasons, he cannot be transported back to Nova Scotia yet.