WARREN, Ohio (AP) – A man who found a little girl who’d been missing from her great-grandparents’ home for two days sounded jubilant in a 911 call.
“Oh, my God,” Victor Sutton told a dispatcher on Sunday evening after finding 2-year-old Rainn Peterson sleeping in a field not far from where she went missing. “Talk about luck.”
Rainn, who apparently had wandered away on Friday, was found around 6:30 p.m. Sunday in North Bloomfield Township, just north of Warren and Youngstown near the Pennsylvania state line. She was taken to a hospital for an evaluation.
The Trumbull County sheriff said Monday that Rainn was in good shape except for being dehydrated.
Authorities organized a massive manhunt to comb the area for Rainn over the weekend, when there were downpours and overnight temperatures in the low 40s. The search for her involved planes and helicopters and people on foot and on horseback.