SAUGERTIES, N.Y. (Washington Insider Magazine) – Paislee Shultis, a six-year-old girl who disappeared in 2019, spent hours Monday hiding in a dark and tiny hole beneath a stairway until authorities smashed it apart and found her.
After receiving a lead, police conducted a search warrant at the property of Kirk Shultis Senior., 57, the girl’s paternal grandparent, on Monday night.
Shultis was with his son, Kirk Shultis Jr. 32, who denies knowing Paislee’s location, despite the fact that detectives discovered a bedroom with Paislee’s name scribbled on the wall and a mattress that seemed to have been recently slept in, according to Sinagra.
Ever since the girl disappeared in July 2019 in Spencer, roughly 3 hours away from Saugerties, he claimed police had visited the same residence many times.
Officials in the modest upstate New York city had received information for more than 2 years that a young kid was with her birth parents there, despite the fact that they had lost custody in 2019.
Sinagra bemoaned the fact that cops are frequently misled.
According to Sinagra of NBC station WNYT of Albany, authorities were on the verge of calling off the search on Monday after concluding that Paislee was most likely not inside.
Detective Erik Thiele put a torch through the wooden floorboards after seeing something peculiar about a stairway to the cellar, Sinagra claimed and discovered what seemed to be a blanket.
Kimberly Cooper, Paislee’s birth mother, was also found under the stairs, Sinagra claimed and had an arrest warrant out of Ulster County.
Paislee was first terrified, but Sinagra claimed she changed her mind after a detective brought her a happy meal. Sinagra claimed the small child remained happy when she was reunited with her legal guardian and teen sister.
There were no signs of sexual or physical abuse, but authorities discovered she couldn’t read or write, according to Sinagra.
Paislee’s biological parents, according to Sinagra, will require social welfare assistance in the future.
Kirk Shultis Sr.57, and Shultis Jr., Paislee’s grandfather and father, were charged with the offense of parental kidnapping in the 1st degree and misdemeanor risking the child’s welfare, according to police. According to authorities, they were freed on their own recognizance.
Cooper was booked with misdemeanor threatening the welfare of a child and second-degree parental kidnapping. According to authorities, she was remanded in detention for the arrest warrant issued by Ulster County.
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