MISSING four-year-old Evelyn Vadie Sides – who went missing more than two days ago after she went on a walk – was found safe with her dog.
Police announced Friday afternoon that the little girl was found alive and safe with her dog.
A Missing Child Alert was issued Wednesday by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, after Evelyn went missing while walking her dog in the 5000 block of Lee Road 66 in Auburn, Alabama.
“The dog was with her protecting her the whole time,” Lee County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Drew Peacock told AL.com after she was found safe Friday.
Officials had searched the woods nearby where the little girl went missing, and had asked for volunteers to help find her.
Police said in a statement more details about her safe return would be released soon.
Evelyn was described in the Amber Alert as a female with red hair, green eyes, and a red mark on her nose.
She is three-feet-tall and weighs 40 pounds.
At the time of her disappearance Evelyn was wearing a short-sleeve floral dress and walking a hound dog.
Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones told OANOW: “What we have reported was a four-year-old child that was in the care of a friend of the family of the child.
“She reported that she and the child were out near the residence taking a walk and the child disappeared from view.”
Evelyn was last seen around 2.30pm on March 25 before she disappeared.
Investigators the wooded area near a bridge on foot, with ATVs, on horseback – and soon with a helicopter to find infrared heat.
Jones said hundreds of volunteers – with the Southwest Volunteer Fire Department, Lee County Deputies, ALEA Troopers, and agencies from surrounding counties – were involved in the search for Evelyn.
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