Paislee Shultis, a young girl kidnapped two years ago at the age of four, was found alive in her home state of New York.
According to NBC New York, she was found in a makeshift room under closed stairs leads to the basement of a house in the town of Saugerties in upstate New York.
Paislee went missing from her home in Cayuga Heights, near Ithaca, on July 13, 2019.
Paislee Shultis was found hidden under the stairs in her biological parents’ house.
Police Department Handout / Saugerties
The police have suspected her biological parents, not guardians for a long timeKimberly Cooper and Kirk Shultis Jr., about the girl’s abduction, but previous searches of their home in the Saugerties were fruitless.
However, police received Valentine’s Day advice that the girl was in the house, which prompted them to return with a wanted warrant.
Saugerties Sheriff Joseph Sinagra told reporters that one of the officers who searched the home noticed something odd about the basement steps. make him take a closer look.
“He held a flashlight and looked between the cracks between the steps. He saw what he thought was a blanket, and at that point they used a halogen tool, a forced entry tool, and they started ripping the steps off the stairs. At one point, they saw little feet like he put it on,” Sinagra said.
Inside, they found Paislee with her biological mother.
The small room where officers found Paislee hiding with her biological mother.
Police Department Handout / Saugerties
USA Today reports that the makeshift room where Paislee was found was “small, cold and wet. ”
Paislee was taken to hospital, where doctors deemed her in good health before releasing her to reunite with her legal guardian and sister.
Both Cooper and Kirk Shultis Jr., along with his father Kirk Shultis Sr., now face fees in case.
Cooper, 33, was charged with interfering with guardianship and endangering the interests of a child, while Kirk Shultis Jr., 32, and Kirk Shultis Sr., 57, were charged with custodial interference. household and misdemeanor endangering children.
Neighbors told CBS they had I didn’t know the little girl had been in the house the whole time.
“I was just shocked, because they seemed like normal people,” Annette Wrolsen told the news agency.
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