The charges against the Ottawa-area mother, who has been the public face of a campaign to find her daughter Emma, were withdrawn Wednesday afternoon in a Perth, Ont., courtroom, her lawyer Trevor Brown confirmed to CBC News. Emma Fillipoff disappeared in November 2012. Fillipoff refused to discuss her comments on the podcast with CBC News, but she said she immediately thought of her daughter when the charges were withdrawn. Last phone callShelley Fillipoff remembers the last time she spoke to her daughter — a phone call on the morning of her disappearance. Not today," she said Emma told her on the morning of Nov. 28, 2012.

Source: CBC News November 24, 2016 01:17 UTC