COPS FIND BODY AT GROW-OP

Woman Buried In Shallow Grave

On Sunday, Amber Young was excited about moving into her own place
with her baby son.

Two days later, the young woman was found in a shallow grave behind a
marijuana grow operation.

"They think she was in the wrong place at the wrong time," the Oshawa
woman's sister, Nivek Young, said yesterday after speaking with
police. "Monday morning I knew something was wrong. She always called
me every day, and she never called."

Amber Young, 21, was a family woman. She called her father, Kevin, in
Toronto "15 times a day," her sister-in-law, Shannon Tansley, said
from Newfoundland. "She'll just call him to say, 'I love you, Daddy,'
and hang up."

So, when no one heard from her after Sunday night, Young's mother
reported her missing.

After turbulent teenaged years, Young seemed on the right track. She
had given birth to a son, Gavin, who had his first birthday five
weeks ago today, and was excited about being a stay-at-home mom,
Nivek, 23, said.

Young had dropped out of high school around Grade 10, but went on to
attend Grove School at Durham Family Court Clinic.

She went through a period of depression after having Gavin but she
never had any addiction problems, her sister said.

"My sister would never do something like this, be in a house like
that," Nivek said, referring to the Oshawa home, which had an indoor
grow-op, where her sister was found. "She tried to avoid people like
that because of her son."

A two-and-a-half year relationship with Gavin's father, Chad Collins,
ended recently after Young was charged with assaulting him, Nivek
said. That charge was subsequently was dropped.

A tearful Collins was too distraught to speak yesterday as he watched
over their son.

Young lived with her sister for a few months before finding her own
place on Albert St. She started moving in Saturday and Sunday called
her sister from her new boyfriend's home and asked if she could drop
off some groceries .

When Nivek visited the apartment with police yesterday, "everything
was normal, like the way that I left it on Sunday," she said.
"Nothing was touched. Nothing was gone through."

"They took our baby, they killed our baby," said Young's mother,
Sheila Tansley, 42, bursting into tears at the apartment.

"She was a lovely girl," stepfather Bailey Watkins said.said. "I
can't believe somebody would even do something like this."