Toddler Found Alive After Missing for Two Days

This undated photo shows 2-year-old Rainn Peterson, who was found alive in an Ohio field Sunday two days after disappearing from her great-grandparents’ home.

Trumbull County Sheriff Tom Altiere says searchers looked “everywhere”.

The sheriff said the family had cooperated with investigators and there were no signs of violence at the home.

Altiere says that Rainn’s Mother, Brandi Bennett was out with a friend at the time of the disappearance. 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. She said her grandmother was in the kitchen and the three children were with her grandfather in another area of the house when the toddler walked away. “She is just an innocent little girl, and she is lost, and I don’t know if she is cold or hungry”, Peterson said in Youngstown before her daughter was found.

Authorities said they would investigate how Rainn managed to get out of her great-grandparents’ house.

“We scoped out just about every culvert we could find”, Altiere said. However, spokesperson for the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, Jill DelGreco says that it has not been determined if there has been a crime committed. Several K-9 units, as well as a helicopter were called to assist.

The search for the girl was suspended at 9 p.m. Saturday night because of darkness but will resume at 7 a.m. Sunday morning.

Earlier today, authorities were trying to locate trail cameras used by hunters to see if there has been any sightings of the missing child. 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.

Trumbull County Chief Deputy Ernest Cook said Rainn was found by Victor Sutton of North Bloomfield, who had been driving a four-wheel all- terrain vehicle to search for the girl.