Montreal police say the missing baby girl who was the subject of an Amber Alert was found safe and sound early Wednesday.
Police spokesperson Sabrina Gauthier confirmed the alert was lifted after the one-year-old baby and her mother were found around 2 a.m. in the city’s Saint-Laurent borough.
No further details were given on where they were found.
The mother, 18, was arrested and appeared in court in Montreal on Wednesday where she was charged with breaking and entering and abduction, according to Quebec’s Crown prosecutor’s office.
An Amber Alert was launched early Tuesday afternoon after police were alerted to a possible parental abduction in the city’s Lachine borough.
The baby was reported missing at 9:25 a.m. Tuesday after her maternal grandparents discovered she was not in the house and a window was open in the back.
Police say the grandparents have custody of the child and the mother does not reside at the home.
Door-to-door searches were underway in the area before police launched the Amber Alert to find the baby and her mother, according to police.
Local hospitals and the Montreal airport were checked. Authorities had also asked residents in the area to check their surveillance cameras and backyards for any sign of the pair.
Audrey Roy-Cloutier, a spokesperson for the Crown, says the prosecution is objecting to the release of the woman, whose identity is protected by a publication ban.
The case is expected to return to court on Thursday.
— with files from Global’s Matilda Cerone and The Canadian Press
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