Missing East Lynne Girl Found
Posted By J.T. on November 14, 2010
Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say a 2-year-old girl who was taken by a stranger from her western Missouri home has been found safe in Iowa.
The Cass County Sheriff’s Department says two people were with Syah Duffey in a vehicle stopped by the Iowa State Highway Patrol near the Des Moines suburb of Mitchellville.
The stop was made around 5:45 p.m. Thursday, about nine hours after Syah’s mother turned the toddler over to a woman who showed up at their home in East Lynne, Mo. Authorities said the woman claimed she was with a state agency and needed to remove the child from the home.
The woman had been driving a van with Iowa license plates.
KCTV5.com has done a rather lengthy article on the story.
Investigators said the reunion between mother, daughter and grandmother will end the ordeal for the Duffey family, but the work is just starting at the Cass County Justice Center. At the Cass County Sheriff’s Office, Cpl. Kevin Tieman said they have plenty of work to do on the case.
“We’re in touch with our prosecutor’s office, in touch with the prosecutor’s office up there, along with the Iowa Highway Patrol,” Tieman said.
What is undecided is if Duffey’s father, James Guyer, and the woman authorities believe abducted the girl, will face charges.
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