Crime & Safety
UPDATED: Missing Toddler Found at Lithonia High School
According to preliminary reports, police say a caregiver left the child unattended in a car outside the Lithonia church's fitness center.
UPDATED: 1:27 p.m., Oct. 16: According to a media reports, the missing 2-year-old girl was found safe at Lithonia High School. Check Stone Mountain-Lithonia Patch for future updates on this story.
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A two year-old girl was abducted this morning outside the Fitness Center at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, DeKalb County police say.
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According to preliminary reports to authorities, the incident happened around 9:30 a.m. when a caregiver left the child unattended in a car outside the church's fitness center at 6400 Woodrow Rd. in Lithonia.
The child and the car were gone when the caregiver returned, police said in a press release.
The two-year-old is described as black female, last seen wearing blue tights, gray and pink sneakers, a white T-shirt and blue and white hair bows.
The car is described as a 2010 dark gray Dodge Caravan with a plastic covering on the rear windshield.
A photo of the child is attached to this article.
Anyone with information in this case is asked to call 911.
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