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Amber Alert cancelled after kidnapped Grand Rapids toddler found safe

  

An Amber Alert has been canceled after authorities located a Grand Rapids boy in Benton Harbor. According to the Grand Rapids Police Department, one-year-old Miquis Jenkins had been missing since Monday after disappearing with 19-year-old babysitter, Iyesha Catherine Gibbs.

The boys family is expressing gratitude to law enforcement and anyone who had a hand in locating the child.

His mother told news outlets “it was every parent’s worst nightmare” after her son went missing, and that her family had not slept since his disappearance.

Authorties reunited the two Thursday. Gibbs is in custody, however, details of her charges were not released at the time of this report.