An Amber Alert was issued Wednesday for a six-week old baby girl from Virginia. The mother’s parental rights had been terminated and police believed the baby girl was in “extreme danger.” Police were hoping someone could help find the baby after her mother fled a family services office in Annandale, Virginia. WUSA, the CBS affiliate […]
An Amber Alert was issued Wednesday for a six-week old baby girl from Virginia.
The mother’s parental rights had been terminated and police believed the baby girl was in “extreme danger.”
Police were hoping someone could help find the baby after her mother fled a family services office in Annandale, Virginia.
WUSA, the CBS affiliate in Washington, D.C. owned by Tegna, assigned Andrea McCarren, a reporter, and Dave Satchel, a news photographer, to the story.
McCarren and Satchel questioned several of the mother’s neighbors, one of whom mentioned a place where he thought the mother might have gone.
“All I kept thinking was Journalist. Humanity. News. The safety of a baby,” said McCarren.
McCarren called police and gave them an address for where the baby might be, drove to the location and waited for police to arrive.
Agents went into the apartment and came out with a baby bundled in a car seat and took her to safety.
“My heart sang. I felt like that baby is out of danger now,” said McCarren.
Authorities then went inside and took the mother into their custody.
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