Search teams and volunteers are breathing a sigh of relief today after 2 year old Rainn Peterson was found alive.
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Victor Sutton, a volunteer searcher riding a four-wheeler, found baby Rainn Peterson sleeping in a field Sunday evening, about a mile south from where the toddler was last spotted. After close to two days of searching, Rainn was found curled up in a field with long grass near State Route 45.
Sutton immediately called 911 and an ambulance was on the seen within minutes to take the little girl to the hospital, where she was last reported in stable 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. Deputies had searched the family’s home several times and had given polygraph tests to the toddler’s relatives, he said. Authorities said Rainn was wearing the purple shirt and gray trousers she was reported to be wearing when she disappeared.
A post on the Ohio Attorney General’s website said the girl could possibly be either lost, injured or missing. 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. She goes to anybody.
“Is that her I hear?”
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The sheriff said the family has been cooperating with investigators and there were no signs of violence at the home.
