A 7-month-old Florida girl missing for five days was found alive in a box hidden under her baby sitter's bed late Wednesday and authorities say they'll charge the sitter, her husband and the infant's mother.
Baby sitter Susan Elizabeth Baker, 50, already is suspected along with her husband James in the 1987 disappearance of her 3-year-old stepson Paul, who was never found. The Bakers and baby Shannon Dedrick's mother Chrystina Lynn Mercer were detained and all will likely be charged in the incident.
Investigators discovered Shannon at 9:55 p.m. Wednesday in a box tucked under a bed surrounded by items intended to hide the little girl at the Bakers' home near the rural Panhandle town of Chipley, the sheriff said.
The baby was placed in protective custody.
"Statistically speaking this should not have ever happened, that we found this child alive, especially after so many days. Time was against us," Haddock said.
Shannon was taken to a hospital but appeared healthy.
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