Convicted child molester Peter Whitmore is due to appear in provincial court in Regina on Thursday morning to face one charge of abduction.

Whitmore is scheduled to appear in provincial court at 9:30 CT. Police said Wednesday they haven't ruled out adding additional charges as their investigation progresses.

RCMP surrounded an abandoned farmhouse after a neighbour discovered Peter Whitmore's van and Zachary Miller escaped.
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Whitmore, 35, surrendered to the RCMP late Tuesday after 10 hours of negotiations at a building near Kipling, Sask., not far from the Manitoba border.

Police said Jordan Bruyere, 14, walked out first, followed by Whitmore a few minutes later. Zachary Miller, 10, had earlier run away from the farmhouse.

"We have the resolution to this whole investigation everyone was hoping for. That is, everybody is safe and sound at this time and being looked after," RCMP Sgt. Tammy Patterson said.

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Zachary, who was discovered at the Kipling property Tuesday afternoon, was reunited with his family in Whitewood, Sask., and was reported by the RCMP to be in "good condition."

Jordan was returned to his mother in Manitoba late Wednesday.

Abandoned van spotted

Peter Robert Joseph Whitmore, 35, surrendered late Tuesday after a 10-hour standoff near Kipling, Sask.
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Pat Beaujot, a resident in the Kipling area, notified the RCMP after he spotted an abandoned van that matched the description of the vehicle police had sought in connection with the abduction.

Shortly after police arrived on the scene, located about 17 kilometres east of Kipling, Zachary ran out of a farm building.

Police immediately cordoned off the area and dispatched an emergency response team.

Zachary disappeared from Whitewood on Sunday, prompting police to issue an Amber Alert and a Canada-wide arrest warrant for Whitmore.

Jordan, a Winnipeg resident, was reported missing in Brandon, Man., on July 22. Winnipeg police were not treating his case as a kidnapping.

Kipling residents relieved, mayor says

Pat Jackson, the mayor of Kipling, said people in her community of 1,100 are thankful the situation has come to an end.

"The reaction? A great deal of relief," she said Wednesday morning.

Whitmore has spent time in prison for sex crimes involving children. He served 16 months in custody after being convicted in Ontario in 1993 of abduction and sexual offences involving four boys.

Just nine days after he was released, he took an eight-year-old girl from Guelph, Ont., to Toronto. He received a 56-month sentence for a sex offence involving the girl.

His most recent prison sentence, for violating terms of his probation, was served in Chilliwack, B.C., and ended in June 2005.

B.C. authorities successfully applied for a court order, good for one year, to monitor his movements within the province.

Whitmore revealed he was planning to move to Alberta and authorities in that province were alerted, but he failed to show up for a June 29 hearing.