FLUSHING, Queens (PIX11) — A 5-year-old girl from Queens has been found safelyafter going missing for several hours on Tuesday.
Police have a person of interest in custody and are conducting a lengthy investigation into the girl’s disappearance.
Police said the girl was with her mother around 9 a.m. Tuesday at a Foodtown Supermarket on 37th Avenue. While in the store, the girl reportedly asked her mother to go to the park. The mother reportedly said no but allowed an acquaintance to take her daughter instead.
The acquaintance, who the mother reportedly knew for about a month, is the 75-year-old person of interest in custody. Surveillance images released by the NYPD show the man holding the girl’s hand in the grocery store. Police said the girl’s mother subsequently could not contact the man and called 911 around 1 p.m.
Girl, 5, located after disappearing in Queens, man in custody: NYPD
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