Missing Yorkton Teen - Mekayla Bali

Mekayla Bali

Yorkton is a small town in Saskatchewan, Canada, with a little less than 20,000 people. It is a small, quiet, and tight-knit community. As anyone from a small town can tell you, everyone pretty well knows everyone. So when a quiet young teen disappeared, seemingly into thin air, it rattled the residents of this sleepy Canadian town.

Mekayla Bali was a 16-year-old girl living in Yorkton in 2016. She was a quiet and shy girl living like most teens. Her family described her as "average", so much so that they made a point of saying that was a defining trait about her. She was average. Nothing more, or less.

Mekayla struggled with her mental health. Like a disturbingly increasing number of children and teens in this country, Mekayla resorted to self-harm. Her missing persons file on Interpol's website even mentions a "fair amount of scars on her upper thigh from self harm".

Mekayla was a good student. Not one to rock the boat much. So it was very out of the ordinary for her to skip school. She was just the average teen, nothing special about her right? Well, on April 12, 2016, Mekayla would deviate from her regular routine drastically.