{"id":32391,"date":"2026-08-08T12:34:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=32391"},"modified":"2026-08-08T12:34:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:34:58","slug":"state-trooper-finds-missing-2-year-old-in-the-woods-she-wont-let-go-of-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=32391","title":{"rendered":"State Trooper Finds Missing 2-Year-Old in the Woods\u2014She Won\u2019t Let Go of Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A 2-Year-Old Girl Went Missing \u2014 Then a Trooper Spotted Something Pink on the Mountain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of every parent&#8217;s worst fears is having their child disappear.<\/p>\n<p>That nightmare became reality when a 2-year-old girl vanished from her home in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Trooper Brian Hotchkiss joined the search. Officers checked nearby homes and searched the surrounding area, but there was no sign of the little girl.<\/p>\n<p>As darkness approached, Hotchkiss knew they had to act quickly. Near the girl&#8217;s home was a wooded mountain with streams and thick trees.<\/p>\n<p>He climbed to the top, hoping to get a better view.<\/p>\n<p>At first, he saw nothing but trees.<\/p>\n<p>Then he noticed something unusual.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A tiny pink spot in the distance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The girl had been wearing a pink shirt.<\/p>\n<p>Hotchkiss immediately headed toward it.<\/p>\n<p>And there she was\u2014the missing 2-year-old, alone in the woods.<\/p>\n<p>What happened next during the rescue was something the trooper said he would never forget.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" 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That nightmare became reality when a 2-year-old girl vanished from her home in New York. Trooper Brian Hotchkiss joined the search. Officers checked nearby homes and searched the surrounding&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=32391\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;State Trooper Finds Missing 2-Year-Old in the Woods\u2014She Won\u2019t Let Go of Him&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32393,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32391\/revisions\/32393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}