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09-20-2006, 11:01 AM
UNION, Mo. — Reunited with her kidnapped newborn, a 21-year-old mother still wearing bandages from the brutal abduction said Wednesday it was "indescribable" to have her infant back in her arms.
"The last several days have been draining, just exhausting. But I can handle anything now," the infant's mother, Stephenie Ochsenbine, said on NBC's "Today" show.
Shannon Beck, a woman who had recently miscarried, was arrested Tuesday after her sister-in-law, Dorothy Torrez, contacted authorities.
"She's the hero," Franklin County Sheriff Gary Toelke said of Torrez. "She's the one that made it happen."
Torrez became suspicious when she noticed makeup on the forehead of the newborn baby her sister-in-law was claiming to have delivered a few days earlier.
She rubbed the makeup off and found a strawberry-red birthmark that matched the description provided by investigators who had been combing the Franklin County countryside for a baby abducted on Friday.
Torrez contacted police, and hours later a healthy 11-day-old Abigale Lynn Woods was reunited with her parents and Beck was in custody.
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"The last several days have been draining, just exhausting. But I can handle anything now," the infant's mother, Stephenie Ochsenbine, said on NBC's "Today" show.
Shannon Beck, a woman who had recently miscarried, was arrested Tuesday after her sister-in-law, Dorothy Torrez, contacted authorities.
"She's the hero," Franklin County Sheriff Gary Toelke said of Torrez. "She's the one that made it happen."
Torrez became suspicious when she noticed makeup on the forehead of the newborn baby her sister-in-law was claiming to have delivered a few days earlier.
She rubbed the makeup off and found a strawberry-red birthmark that matched the description provided by investigators who had been combing the Franklin County countryside for a baby abducted on Friday.
Torrez contacted police, and hours later a healthy 11-day-old Abigale Lynn Woods was reunited with her parents and Beck was in custody.
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