MIAMI (AP) – Police in South Florida say they have found two young girls who had been missing from Memphis, Tennessee, for nearly a year, and arrested their 45-year-old mother.
Authorities said a search is underway for their 15-year-old brother.
On Tuesday, Biscayne Park police officers found a confused and barefoot girl wandering the streets. She told them her name and the agency asked Miami-Dade police dispatchers if there was a missing persons case for anyone matching her description, the Miami Herald reported. A local search came up empty, and dispatchers did a national search, which also found nothing.
The teen was turned over to the Florida Department of Children and Families, who discovered she was kidnapped from Tennessee, police said.
The girl was not able to tell officers where she was running from or where she was being held, the newspaper reported. But she did provide the color of the house in Biscayne Park where she had been staying, along with two numbers of the street address.