Update: Girl found in Flint identified by police, no evidence she was kidnapped from Detroit
Photo from Flint police. Original image of girl's face has been blurred to protect her identity.
FOX 2 - Flint police say a young girl who claimed to have been kidnapped from Detroit may be false as the incident appears to have raised more questions than answers.
Investigators now say that she has been identified and that she and her parents live in Flint. Child Protective Services are involved in the investigation. She had claimed she was kidnapped from a McDonald's in Detroit.
"We have just confirmed this young girl’s identity and there is now no reason to believe that she had been in the Detroit area recently," Flint police wrote on their Facebook page. "We are currently contacting her parents who live in Flint and CPS is still involved in the process."
Police said earlier tonight that the girl did not know her address in Detroit but gave police her mother's name. Detroit police responded to Flint PD saying there where
The photo that was previously included in the story and provided by Flint police was not the girl's mother. Flint PD has removed the photo. FOX 2 has blurred the girl's picture to protect her identity.
Flint police thanked the public for their help.
"We are very thankful for all of the comments/shares/private messages that it generated," their social media post said. "One of those led us to solving this mystery. Thank you!"