‘I Found Baby Rainn': Missing Ohio Toddler Found Alive Near Relatives' Home

A 2-year-old girl who went missing Friday from her great-grandparents' home in rural northeastern Ohio was found alive on Sunday evening. 

A volunteer searcher found Rainn Peterson in a grassy field about a half-mile from where she had been reported missing, NBC affiliate WKYC reported. She was "as fine as can be expected," according to the Trumbull County Sheriff, and was taken to a hospital for evaluation.

"I found Baby Rainn and she's still alive..." the volunteer said in a 911 call released by authorities. "She's got flies all over her, but she's OK. It'll all be OK honey...You're OK sweetheart. I swear you're gonna be OK."

The dispatcher responded, "That's her I hear? Oh, I just got goosebumps."

Rainn and her two brothers, ages 3 and 4, were staying with their great-grandparents on Friday when they reported her missing at around 7:30 p.m. ET, Trumbull County Sheriff Thomas Altiere told WKYC. 

The mother of the little girl told the station she was out with her boyfriend when her grandparents called and said that the toddler had gone missing.

Brandi Peterson said her grandmother was cooking and the three children were downstairs with the grandfather. The missing toddler went upstairs and went missing a short time after, Peterson told WKYC.

On Saturday, search dogs picked up Rainn Peterson's scent a few hundred yards from the house. Late Sunday afternoon the search was expanded to the entire state of Ohio and western Pennsylvania, aided by hundreds of volunteers.

"We were looking in holes, in a cornfield," volunteer Lorie Tingler told WKYC. "We were looking in the woods. We were crawling under pine trees, through forest, we were wet."

A volunteer found the toddler 48 hours after she was reported missing.

Altiere said early Sunday, before Peterson was found, that there were no signs of foul play and that deputies had searched the family's home and had given polygraph tests to the toddler's relatives, the Chicago Tribune reported. 

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