Missing two year old found asleep in Ohio field
How did 2-year-old Rainn Peterson end up in a field? That question is stumping police in Ohio after the missing toddler was found sleeping in some tall grass.
The young girl disappeared from her great-grandparents home Friday night in eastern Ohio. For the rest of the weekend, search crews were out looking for the young girl.
Sunday night, she was found alive and sleeping in some tall grass.
Trumbull County Sheriff Tom Altiere told FOX 8 in Cleveland that the little girl was found by a volunteer searcher who was riding through the field on a four-wheeler. Authorities said Rainn was wearing the purple shirt and gray pants she was reported to be wearing when she disappeared.
The volunteer called 911 after coming across the missing child asleep.
"I found baby Rainn and she's alive!" were the unidentified man's first words to the dispatcher.
At one point during the call, the baby can be heard crying in the background.
"Is that her I hear?" the dispatcher asks. "I hear her. Oh, I just got goosebumps."
"Oh my God, me too," the caller said. "I couldn't give up on this kid. Thank God."
Authorities have not determined how the little girl got out of her great-grandparents' house around 6:30 Friday night. The search expanded to include all of Ohio and parts of Pennsylvania. They searched through wooded areas, backyards, and drainage pipes.
Rainn's mother told the Associated Press that Rainn and two siblings had been staying with the great-grandparents because she was moving into an apartment. She says Rainn is "just an innocent little girl."