GUATEMALA CITY – Guatemalan police on Tuesday rescued safe and sound an 18-month-old girl who had been kidnapped last week in a neighborhood on the northern outskirts of the country’s capital.
The little girl was found inside a home in the Santa Faz neighborhood of Chinautla, but the abductors managed to escape after they noticed the presence of law enforcement personnel in the vicinity, police said in a statement.
The criminals, and authorities are not certain precisely how many of them were involved in the plot, escaped via a ravine, according to the terse police report.
The child’s kidnapping was reported on May 13 by the father, who said that it occurred while she was playing in the yard of their residence in Alameda, a poor zone in northern Guatemala City.
Police did not specify who was with the baby at the time of the abduction or the circumstances under which the crime occurred.
The authorities said only that the criminals were demanding 50,000 quetzales ($6,476) in cash for the child’s return without mentioning whether or not anything was paid to them.
After her rescue, the little girl was returned to her relatives, the police communique said.
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