PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Two young missing kids from Ohio were found in Iceland after a months-long search, the U.S. Marshals Service announced on Thursday.
The search for the two children, ages 8 and 9, began when they were reported missing to the Canton Police Department at the end of October. Authorities said a family member had reported them missing, indicating that their 34-year-old mother had stopped taking her mental health medication, abandoned her apartment and stopped taking her children to school.
The U.S. Marshals Service said the kids were initially tracked to Denver, Colorado. As the case “intensified,” investigators said they learned the three traveled to London then to the Island of Jersey in the English Channel. From there they went to a remote fishing village in Iceland before Icelandic police tracked them to a hotel in the capital of Reykjavik on Jan. 10, marshals said.
Iceland social services cared for the children until a family member could come get them. The mother was placed in a hospital, where authorities said she’ll stay until she’s well enough to travel back to the U.S.
“The collaboration of effort in this case can’t be understated,” U.S. Marshal Pete Elliott said. “The ability to respond and recover these children abroad is an extremely difficult task. Our investigators did an outstanding job. We are lucky to have such strong and dedicated law enforcement partners and credit should be given to them for helping bring these children home.”
The U.S. Marshals Service said the search involved multiple agencies, including Canton police, Interpol, the U.S. State Department and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which provided financial support to reunite the kids with their family in the U.S.
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