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New York sisters discovered ‘being held by mom and girlfriend’ 11 months after being kidnapped ky lea fortner and shaeleen fitch fortner
Two teenage sisters have been present in upstate New York practically a yr after vanishing and a household acquaintance has been charged with their kidnapping, police stated Thursday.
Ky-Lea Fortner and Sharleen Fitch-Fortner had been reported as “teen runaways” final April. The women — then aged 15 and 13 — had been residing with a foster household in Binghamton once they disappeared and had been final seen ready for a bus at their college, in keeping with New York State Police.
They had been discovered Wednesday evening about 15 miles away from the place they had been final seen at a property within the close by city of Vestal, state police stated in a press release Thursday.
Police stated Amanda Hellman, a 29-year-old “household acquaintance,” was arrested on the property Thursday on suspicion of kidnapping second diploma, a class-B felony. Hellman was arraigned earlier than a choice and remanded without bail to the Broome County Jail, in Binghamton.
Officers launched a hunt for the sisters after they had been finally seen ready for a bus at Susquehanna Valley Excessive Faculty on April 27 of final yr.
Through the 11-month investigation, police stated they “acquired and investigated quite a few investigative leads relative to the ladies’ location,” which led them to Hellman’s tackle in Vestal.
The sisters have now been turned over to Broome County Household Providers.
A neighbor of Hellman’s informed the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin he incessantly noticed the ladies exterior and noticed no indicators of “duress.”
