Abducted Santee Girl, 9, Found Safe by Motorist in El Cajon

A 9-year-old girl, abducted while playing outside her home Saturday night, was found Sunday by an alert motorist after an all-night search by sheriff’s deputies and volunteers yielded no trace of her.

Investigators with the San Diego County Sheriff’s department have no suspects in the disappearance of Kelly Yette of the 9400 block of Carlton Oaks Drive, but they are investigating several people, said spokesman Sgt. Chris Kee. Investigators believe Kelly spent the night in her kidnaper’s vehicle and was assaulted before being released or escaping Sunday morning.

Yette was found wandering near the intersection of Jamacha Road and Weld Street in El Cajon about 11:30 a.m. by a motorist who had heard her description on a radio news program, Kee said.

The shaken girl allowed the woman to walk with her toward the Santee sheriff’s station, Kee said. The two flagged down two deputies on motorcycles along the way and were taken to the station.

Kelly was examined at Children’s Hospital in Kearny Mesa. Kee said that the girl told sheriff’s deputies that she had been assaulted, but he had no details on the nature of the assault. Hospital spokesman Vince Bond declined to give any details of her condition.

Kee said Kelly reported that a man snatched her from her apartment complex in Santee about 8 p.m. Saturday. Kee said that the girl could give no description of the vehicle in which she apparently spent the night.

Sheriff’s deputies and about 140 volunteers, aided by the Sheriff Department’s helicopter, searched the area near Kelly’s home throughout the night after learning of her disappearance about 9 p.m., but found no clues to her whereabouts, Kee said.

Sunday morning, deputies went door to door with a photo of Kelly in an effort to locate her.