“At that moment, my only reaction was to pick her up and not to let her go and the whole time I was with her, I never did.
“She was calm the whole time and smiled a lot with us. You would never know we were strangers.
“She was in a perfect state. The only strange thing was she had no shoes.
“She was a beautiful princess who did not deserve this to happen to her.”
Wilbert Canto said he never let go of Adelynn until she was in the hands of police.Credit:Wilbert Canto
Canto said the man with whom he had spoken, who he later thought resembled Adelynn’s father on the news, vanished.
“My cousin and I went with the child asking people in houses if they knew her but nobody did and neighbours tried helping find her family,” he said.
“After one hour of asking neighbours and people around the area, we made a call to 911 to report her and 30 minutes later police arrived and the girl was taken to a safe house until her family picks her up.”
Shanks’ brother Daniel told Nine’s Today he was told Adelynn was safe and in good health after the embassy had sent them photos and information.
Adelynn ran towards the entrance of the church.Credit:Wilbert Canto
“We’ve had a friend of ours send us a photo that had been posted on one of the Cancun social media sites and said, ‘is this your niece?’” he said.
“We were woken up in the middle of the night and confirmed that it was [her] and we haven’t been able to get in touch with my sister. So, we’ve got grave concerns for [Tahnee’s] safety.”
Daniel Shanks said the Australian and Mexican governments’ search efforts for his missing sister had been boosted following publicity.
“We’ve got a lot of people on the ground searching at the moment, they’re chasing up footage of when the vehicle left their home town and chasing CCTV footage, they’re pinging the phone, they call it to find out their last GPS location of Tahnee’s phone and Jorge’s,” he said.
Mr Shanks said the car was found in Cancun.
Estudillo is wanted for questioning but has not been located by authorities, Nine News reported.
Mexican authorities have filed a missing persons report while police in Australia confirmed they are doing what they can.
“If it involves someone who should be in Queensland, or was meant to be coming back, we will be involved in that to find out what’s gone on and get answers for that family,” Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll said.
Toddler of missing Australian woman said one word as she ran into church
Source: Philippines Alive
