Alberta Baby Reported Missing, Left On Freezing Doorstep

A Dodge Ram pickup truck that was stolen this week in Grand Prairie was carrying some pretty precious cargo. A seven-month old baby girl named Addison, outfitted in a pink tunic and slacks decorated with pink and blue hearts, was asleep in the back seat when the truck was heisted.

With two hours of the truck being stolen, police officials were contacted by a rural resident living a short distance from downtown Grand Prairie, who discovered the infant, still sitting in her car seat, alone and unharmed on his front porch.

Roy Kennedy of Grande Prairie’s RCMP detachment says that the home owner was both amazed and surprised to discover an abandoned infant right outside his front door, especially in view of the sub-freezing weather, with wind chills hovering around twenty-three degrees below zero.

“Probably not every day that you go outside of your residence and find an abandoned infant on your step or front porch,” he said.

Soon after, police pursued a tip that lead them to discover the stolen truck, which had been abandoned as well just south of Grand Prairie on the property of a forestry mill. Three individuals were seen running from the truck and were pursued by police officers at the scene, who were able to take all three auto theft suspects into police custody.

A neighbor who witnessed the brazen theft in the Royal Oaks neighborhood reports that the truck’s owner had parked it in the driveway with the child inside so she could run inside her home to retrieve something. Suddenly, a suspect departed a blue truck, jumped inside the Dodge Ram, and took off.

Several neighbors jumped into their own vehicles and attempted to give chase, with the frantic mother beside herself that she had left her baby in her vehicle to avoid bringing it out into the cold while she retrieved what she needed. Addison has been checked out at the local hospital and is doing fine.

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Alberta baby left in stolen truck found safe on porch of rural home
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