Missing Amish girls from New York were found safe and alive after almost 24 hours of frantic search by police and the community. The missing Amish girls turned were found Thursday evening, after an apparent abduction from their family's roadside farm stand in the rural New York town of Oswegatchie, said authorities.
According to Fox News, the two missing Amish girls escaped two men who allegedly abducted them. The two previously missing Amish girls are 6-year-old Delila Miller and 12-year-old Fannie Miller.
The Associated Press reports that word of the return of the two previously missing Amish girls came after about 200 people held a candlelight prayer vigil at Cornerstone Wesleyan Church in nearby Heuvelton.
NBC affiliate WPTZ was also able to interview St. Lawrence County Sheriff's Office Undersheriff Scott Bonno who said that nearly 50 officers had also been hard at work searching for the girls.
According to Mary Rain, St. Lawrence's County District Attorney, they found the girls cold and wet, however unharmed. They reportedly sought help at a Richville home, about 13 miles from where they disappeared.
NBC News reports Rain as saying that the two previously missing Amish girls have been 'dropped off from a vehicle' in Richville on Thursday evening. Apparently, they walked to the nearest house, where a man who greeted them "recognized who they were immediately." The man took the girls home and they were met by deputies as well.
According to reports, a neighbor who visited the girls' family after they returned said one of their brothers described them as well and are currently being checked out.
As of the current moment, no other details are available regarding what happened to the previously missing Amish girls or if there were suspects in their disappearance.
Authorities are not releasing any information as well.
Rain said, 'We have the sheriff's department and the FBI speaking with the young ladies.' She noted that the Amish are a 'very private people' and that investigators believe more than one person was involved in the girls' disappearance.
She added that she is confident the kidnappers would be identified.
According to the AP, the missing Amish girls went missing around 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday as a white or light-colored car pulled up to their family's farm stand. They greeted the customers inside the car while the rest of the family reportedly stayed at a barn for the evening milking.
A law enforcement source said the girls were abducted by two men. The men allegedly took them to an abandoned house, where they told the sisters not to leave. They reportedly left afterwards.
Reports say that searchers frantically scoured for the missing Amish girls, especially since they lacked photos from authorities to circulate. Though there were no photos because the Amish shuns modern technology, the family agreed for a sketch of the older child, according to St. Lawrence County Sheriff Kevin Wells.
The girls are reportedly among the youngest of the 13 children of Mose and Barb Miller.
According to the 2010 Census, Oswegatchie has a population of just under 4,400. It is is near the Canadian border.
Missing Amish girls found recently lives in St. Lawrence County, where New York's second-largest Amish population has grown in the past decade. According to the AP, the growth is due to the productive land and property prices in the area, which are lower than in Pennsylvania.
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