Amber Alert issued in Ottawa for missing 11-month-old
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Ottawa police have issued an Amber Alert for a missing 11-month-old girl.
Police say Abby Mathewsie was last seen with her mother at about 1:55 a.m. in the area of Carling Avenue and Pinecrest Road.
Police are treating her disappearance as “suspicious” and issued the Amber Alert at 3:22 a.m.
Police said on Twitter the baby has a feeding tube in her stomach and “cannot be fed regular baby formula and she needs medical attention.”
Abby is Indigenous with short black hair and had a feeding tube attached to her nose. She was wearing a navy blue Montreal Canadiens “onesie” when last seen.
The suspected abductor is a woman in her 70s known as “Miriam”, police said.
At about 8:30 a.m. police issued a new picture of a “possible witness.”
Emergency Services Unit has been conducting a ground search of the area since early Friday.
“Officers are searching the area but investigators are asking nearby residents to search their properties and report anything suspicious.”
“If you see Abby, please call 911.”
Residents of the nearby Larga Baffin — a full-service boarding home for residents of the Baffin region of Nunavut — gathered outside Friday morning.
Some said they’d seen the alleged abductor with the baby and the mother the night before.
“We just saw her holding on to the baby,” said one woman, who gave her name only as Apa.
“We thought she was a social worker. They were even walking together.”
The last they saw her she was walking down to Richmond toward the OC Transpo stop, Apa said.
No one in the group had ever seen the woman before.
“No one even knows where she lived,” Apa said.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the west division staff sergeant at 613-236-1222 ext. 2912.
If you don’t know where Abby is, but have information that might help investigators, you can call the police Missing Person Unit at 613-236-1222, ext. 2355 between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m..
Anonymous tips can be submitted to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or at crimestoppers.ca.