Ohio toddler missing since Friday found alive in rural area

A 2-year-old girl who disappeared Friday night from her great-grandparents’ home was found alive Sunday evening in a nearby field. Rainn immediately was taken by ambulance to St. Joseph Hospital in Warren, where a nursing supervisor refused to comment when asked about the child’s condition. Authorities concentrated the search around the home in rural northeastern Ohio, going through wooded areas, backyards and drainage pipes. An imperiled missing youngster counseling for the young lady was extended to incorporate all of Ohio and northwestern Pennsylvania hours before she was found.

Trumbull County Sheriff Thomas Altiere said the girl was at the home with her two brothers, ages three and four, as her great-grandparents watched them while her mother Brandi Peterson moved into a new apartment. Deputies had searched the family’s home several times and had given polygraph tests to the toddler’s relatives, he said. “She is just an innocent little girl”.

Police dogs and a helicopter along with the Federal Bureau of Investigation were assisting in the search Saturday. She had been clad only in a purple shirt, trousers and tennis shoes and was not wearing a coat. The sheriff said he did not issue an AMBER alert usually activated for missing children because there was no evidence that Rainn had been abducted. “I hear her. Oh, I just got goosebumps”.