An Amish farmer works on his field. Photo: MLADEN ANTONOV/ Getty Images Police are searching for two Amish girls they say may have been abducted from a roadside stand near the Canadian border.
The girls were abducted Wednesday evening while selling produce from their family’s farmgate stand in rural, upstate New York.Police say they have reason to believe the girls have been abducted but have also been searching nearby rivers and forests.
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American officials have shared an Amber Alert with Canadian police, including the Grenville County OPP. Though police have no information that the abducted children have been brought into Canada, they’re coordinating just in case.
“Given the proximity to the border that’s definitely a concern,” said Sgt. Cathy Lindsey, spokesperson for the Grenville County OPP. The Amber Alert has been distributed across the province.
The St. Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office says police patrols are out searching Thursday morning for 7-year-old Delila Miller and 12-year-old Fannie Miller. The two are fluent in Pennsylvania Dutch but only the older girl speaks English.
Officials issued a special alert for the two girls after they were apparently abducted around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the rural town of Oswegatchie, 240 km northwest of the New York State capital, Albany. That’s about 100 km from the Canadian border and there is concern the girls might be in this country.
Police say the girls went to wait on a customer at the family’s roadside stand. A witness saw a passenger in a vehicle put something into the back seat, and when the vehicle drove off the children were gone.
Both girls were wearing dark blue dresses with blue aprons and black bonnets. The sheriff’s office said in an update Thursday morning that the girls may have changed clothes since then and they are currently looking for a white, four-door vehicle.
They don’t have photos of the girls, given their Amish upbringing.
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