6-year-old girl found alive after 2 years of missing

A child who was reported missing in 2019 when she was 4 years old was found hidden under a wooden staircase with her non-custodial mother, in a home officials had visited several times while investigating her disappearance, reported Cable News Network (CNN) on Wednesday, quoting authorities.

The child, Paislee Joann Shultis, now 6, was reported missing on July 13, 2019, from Cayuga Heights, a village on the outskirts of Ithaca, New York. At the time, she was believed to have been abducted by her noncustodial parents, Kimberly Cooper and Kirk Shultis Jr., police said in a news release on Tuesday.

Paislee and her mother were found Monday when investigators spotted "a pair of tiny feet" in a secret space under wooden steps leading to a basement, said the CNN report.

"We should all wait until the facts come out," said the report, quoting Carol K. Morgan, who represents Cooper as saying.

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