2023-07-12 13:21:23
An Amber Alert in Alabama, United States, came to a successful conclusion on Tuesday when the 9-month-old baby, whom authorities believed to be abducted, was found safe and sound in the vehicle which had simply rolled down a slope to be caught in a thick bush in front.
“Daylight has been our friend this time around,” Parrish Police Chief Danny Woodward said following round four of the neighborhood search on Tuesday, The Mirror reported. .
On Monday, 9-month-old Harlow Darby Freeman was in her parents’ vehicle when her father reportedly stepped out briefly to run into a friend’s house, leaving the baby in the car.
But when he returned, around 6:50 p.m., there was no trace of the car, so parents and authorities believed it was a kidnapping, quickly triggering an Amber alert.
“I’m begging you to please give me back my baby […] Drop the baby off anywhere, just give me a call or message me where she is. I won’t ask questions, I swear,” Bethany Smith had then begged, in numerous Facebook posts.
Despite numerous searches during the night, it was not until the early morning, more than 12 hours later, that the little one was found safe and sound in the vehicle, hidden in a Kudzu bush, also a climbing plant. called Japanese or Chinese arrowroot, across the street.
An investigation is still ongoing, but the authorities have abandoned the thesis of the kidnapping, now believing that the father would have forgotten to put the car on the brakes, which would have allowed him to descend an embankment – a sloping ground – which was in front.
The vehicle would have rolled for hundreds of meters, before ending its course in the thick bush.
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