Girl being taken to foster home hijacks WA state child welfare worker. Then she escaped
A girl hijacked a Child Protective Services employee and forced her to drive to a rendezvous with another car and then she fled.
The woman was taking the girl from Walla Walla to a Benton County foster home when the girl pulled out a pair of scissors and held the sharp edge to the employee’s throat, the Benton County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post early Tuesday.
The girl, whose age was not released, then directed the CPS worker to keep driving, and then she forced the woman to pull off in a remote area of the county north of Prosser.
She directed the woman to pull to the side of the road near a ditch. The girl climbed out and ran to another car that drove away with her.
The CPS employee’s van slid into the ditch and had to be towed out, said investigators.
Deputies are still trying to find the girl, according to the Facebook post.
This story was originally published August 29, 2023 at 10:48 AM.