A talking bird helped find a woman get charged in the abduction of a 5-year-old girl. The Associated Press reported that Christina Regusters was charged with "kidnapping, rape of a child, conspiracy, aggravated assault and other offenses" after she abducted a young girl from her elementary school in Philadelphia last month. Officials arrested her due in part to the girl's memory of a talking bird in the home where she was taken.
She is currently being held on $4 million bail and she lies in a home with three others who live in a home nearby Bryant Elementary School in west Philadelphia where the 5-year-old was kidnapped and where Regusters worked.
She was an after-school care program attendant at the place the child was kidnapped. A woman posing as her mother came to the program and said she was there to take the girl out to breakfast. Investigators said to the AP that the believe the suspect and the child walked few blocks ta home where man was waiting for them and then the girl was blindfolded and told to remove her clothes. They put her in a black t-shirt and told her to hid under a bed.
Reportedly the woman who walked in and took the girl from the school was wearing a black Muslim head garment that covered her face with a veil. "The victim's mother wears the traditional chador and niqab," reported The AP.
"She was apparently dumped about 18 hours later at a park about a mile from her school, just outside the city, and was found by a passer-by, shivering under playground equipment. When she was found, the girl told her rescuer, "I've been stolen." Reported The AP.
The girls attorney Tom Kline said that the child told officers about a talking abird in the apartment which helped lead authorities to the home.
"This brave, innocent precious little girl was instrumental in leading police literally to the door of the crime," Kline said to the AP.. "She told them that there was a bird in the house. The bird became one of the many focal points of the investigation."
"There is still more work to be done," said Kline. "We are watching anxiously the next developments because this is not the end of the line."
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