Parents, grandparents of missing 8-month-old arrested as search continues
Police in Kentucky have been searching nearly a week for a missing eight-month-old baby who is believed to have been abandoned by her parents.
The parents of missing Miya Tucker were both arrested on Thursday after police carried out a welfare check for the baby and were unable to find her, according to a press release from Kentucky State Police. The girl’s mother Tesla Tucker, 29, and father Cage Rudd, 30, were arrested on drug and child abandonment charges.
Later, Miya’s grandparents were also arrested on various charges, including drug trafficking, child abuse and assault. All four family members are residents of Reynolds Station, Ky., an unincorporated community in Ohio County.
A photo of Miya was shared by Kentucky State Police on Facebook. She is described as having brown hair and green eyes.
State police told local broadcaster 14News that they are searching the woods near the home the missing girl shared with her parents and grandfather, Ricky Smith. The entrance to the forest is about 100 yards (90 metres) away from the family’s home and troopers are using sniffer dogs to scour roughly five acres of woods.
Officer Cory King told the outlet that the investigation so far has turned up no sign of the missing eight-month-old.
“We have no evidence … that she is deceased, but we also don’t have anything to suggest she’s alive either. At this point, she is truly a missing child, but there is no information that anyone has her, that they sold this child, that this child was abducted,” King said. “Really, we’re getting very little to no information from those who should know the most.”
Police were alerted that Miya was missing by other members of her family, who reported on May 30 that they hadn’t seen Miya since late
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