(Montreal) The mother of the one-year-old girl whose disappearance was the subject of an Amber Alert on Tuesday in Montreal was formally charged with kidnapping on Wednesday.
The 18-year-old woman appeared in court Wednesday afternoon in Montreal. She was accused of breaking into a residential home to commit a kidnapping.
The spokesperson for the Director of Criminal and Penal Prosecutions (DPCP), Audrey Roy-Cloutier, specified that the prosecution opposed his release. The case will return to court on Thursday.
The girl was reported missing around 9:25 a.m. Tuesday from her maternal grandparents’ house located in the Lachine borough, in the southwest of Montreal.
Police arrested the mother shortly after she and her daughter were found safe around 2:05 a.m. at an unspecified location in the borough of Saint-Laurent, in the northwest of Montreal.
The mother’s identity is protected by a publication ban.