Chelsey St. Pierre – The Suburban LJI Reporter

The Amber Alert issued on Tuesday afternoon for a missing one-year old girl has been lifted. At approximately 2:05 a.m. Wednesday morning Montreal police officers located the missing child safe and sound in the Saint-Laurent borough.

The mother, an 18 year-old whose identity is protected by a publication ban, was arrested and is scheduled to meet investigators. A thorough investigation into the circumstances which led to the Alert is being conducted throughout the day today. No charges have yet been filed.

The infant was reported missing by her maternal grandmother who is her custodian. The grandmother discovered the infant’s room empty with the window open and reported her missing, triggering the Alert.

“I have not seen the little one yet, I am waiting for youth protection to contact me,” the grandmother told The Suburban. “Our life has been upside down since my daughter met this boy at age 16. My daughter was reported missing multiple times and the ‘system’ badly managed this entire ordeal. I am worried about how this (incident) will be dealt with. I hope that they bring her back home,” she explained.

A Source who had close dealings with the family told The Suburban that the mother was a quiet and shy girl who left her home in Lachine at age 16 to get away from a “difficult” situation. “The police were often at their apartment and the girl’s step-father was arrested on multiple occasions.” The infant was not returned to her grandmother’s home as of 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday and remained in the custody of Youth Protection services.

According to the grandmother, her granddaughter was remitted to her custody at 2 months of age following a three-week stay at the hospital for treatment of severe injuries. At the time of the incident which led to the lengthy hospital stay, the infant was living with her grandmother, her boyfriend and his mother, all of whom lost access rights to the child.