Paislee Shultis Kidnapping Details: 6-Year-Old Girl's Rescue Was Basically A Miracle!
05.04.2022 - 03:41
/ perezhilton.com
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New details are coming to light in the disturbing case of 6-year-old Paislee Shultis‘ apparent kidnapping. And it shows just how disturbingly easy it can be for missing children to be lost in the system.
As we’ve previously reported, Shultis was four years old when she was reported missing back on July 13, 2019, from Cayuga Heights, New York. From the very start, investigators believed the young girl was taken by her non-custodial parents, 32-year-old Kirk Shultis Jr. and 33-year-old Kimberly Cooper (both pictured above, inset). The pair had lost custody of the girl earlier that year.
In February, then, police found the young girl in a “dark and wet” room underneath the stairs of a house in upstate New York. It appeared as though she had been living under the hidden crawl space in the stairs inside an “intricate, secret apartment in the basement with escape routes to the backyard.”
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Upon discovering Shultis in the secret crawl space, investigators charged both parents as well as Kirk Shultis’ father, Kirk Shultis Sr. (pictured above, right, walking into court with Shultis Jr. and the family’s lawyer), with custodial interference and endangering the welfare of a child. All three parties pleaded not guilty to the charges at the time of their filing.
So how did this poor girl get found? Wading through the story, it’s something of a miracle…
For one, according to court documents obtained by The Sun, it appears as though a simple missed court date led to the momentum of the entire investigation being directed towards the two non-custodial parents. Per the outlet, two days before the girl’s 2019 disappearance,