Police: 1-Year-Old Found Safe After Being Taken From Homewood North Home, Investigation Ongoing
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Pittsburgh Police are investigating after a 1-year-old child was taken from a Homewood North home Wednesday evening.
Officers were sent to the home on Mt. Vernon Street, near Collier Street, around 8 p.m. for reports of a possible abduction.
Pittsburgh Police say a teenage babysitter told officers that a 27-year-old woman, identified as Nayshell Sly, came to the home, took the 1-year-old girl and drove away.
The babysitter told officers she and the girl's family are an acquaintance of Sly, but she did not have permission to take the child.
Great work all across the city by @PghPolice officers tonight for quickly and safely locating a missing baby girl who had been taken from her home earlier tonight. pic.twitter.com/UxSL4fMKcm
— Pittsburgh Police (@PghPolice) April 25, 2019
Police pinged Sly's cell phone, showing that she was driving through South Side.
Around 9:30 p.m., officers saw the suspect's vehicle on the Birmingham Bridge and pulled her over. Sly was with her two children, her female cousin and her child, and the missing baby girl was in the backseat.
Sly was apprehended, and officials say the 1-year-old girl was unharmed.
However, she was taken to Children's Hospital for evaluation.
Sly was taken to police headquarters to be questioned. She is now facing charges of kidnapping, burglary and interfering with the custody of children.
The investigation is ongoing.
