Missing 3-Year-Old Girl Found Unharmed
A 3-year-old girl missing since Thursday from her Huntington Beach home has been found unharmed and reunited with her mother, police said Saturday.
Jennifer Lend Ruengsri had apparently been abducted from her home by a runaway, Dana Jennifer O’Hair, 16, who had been staying with the child’s family.
The child was found late Friday, after police received a report that a little girl matching Jennifer’s description was seen wandering alone at 10 p.m. in Sage Park in Anaheim, police said.
After being examined at the University of California, Irvine, Medical Center, where doctors found no evidence of physical or sexual abuse, the child was allowed to return to her mother, Rungrachanee Ruengsri, 19.
Dana, described by police as emotionally disturbed, is being sought for questioning. Her relatives and police say she apparently took the child to replace her own daughter, Nikita, who was born dead last October.
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