FOREST PARK, Ga. - Authorities say a 1-year-old girl who was in the back seat of a car when it was stolen outside a daycare center near Atlanta has been found safe.

Forest Park police Lt. Jason Armstrong said police got a call from a resident who had spotted the car parked in a neighborhood.

Police then found the missing car and the girl, asleep inside the vehicle, near Scott Drive and Holly Circle in Clayton County shortly before 7 a.m.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the child has been reunited with her mother.

Authorities had issued a child abduction alert early today morning after the car was stolen outside the 24-hour Playskool daycare facility in Forest Park, just south of Atlanta.