Saskatchewan family relieved after six-year-old autistic girl found safe
NORTH BATTLEFORD, Sask. — A Saskatchewan mother says words cannot describe the relief she feels after being reunited with her daughter who police say was taken when she was left in the back of a running SUV.
An Amber Alert was issued Sunday night after police say six-year-old Emma O’Keeffe was left in the back of her parents’ running Mercedes and it was stolen from outside a strip mall in North Battleford.
The child, who is autistic, epileptic and non-verbal, was found almost 14 hours later still inside the SUV, which had been left about two kilometres from where it had been taken and was noticed by some workers who called 911.
“Words cannot express our emotions right now,” mother Alison O’Keeffe said in a Facebook post. “Emma is safe at home sleeping soundly, peacefully, surrounded by all the love in the world.”