After going missing for over two days in Lebanon Junction, two-year-old Charlee Campbell and her dog Penny eventually came out of the woods.
Although Charlee made it back home safely, the Bullitt County Sheriff’s Office is still in search of information.
According to Charlee’s grandmother Beth Campbell, she’s still in disbelief that her granddaughter, who resides with her, is still alive.
“Charlee, when they told me they had located Mo, I was completely detached from myself. I was just ecstatic,” she remarked.
“This is our hero right here,” Beth said, petting Penny, and she said she thought Penny had been on Charlee’s side the whole time she was absent.
“She was not going to leave that baby until she got here when my dog and my baby didn’t come home,” she said of the pit bull.
Penny arrived home not long before Charlee was discovered at a neighbor’s house a few hundred yards away, according to law enforcement officials.
“I can’t even explain how happy that I am that this baby is home, because I love her more than anything in this world,” said Beth.
The man who located Charlee, Wayne Brown, claimed to have seen a blonde-haired girl in his backyard while he was praying for the young child on his couch.
Brown was affected in multiple ways by the joyous reunion.
He said, “My little brother vanished.” “He had climbed three fences and strayed from the house. He was located miles from the residence. It was actually my uncle that found him and he was dead.”
After locating Charlee, Brown gave her water and phoned 911. But he still has unanswered questions.
They are omnipresent. She appears where the search has been conducted, despite the fact that they have searched every inch of this area in hopes of finding this child. “How does that occur?” he enquired.
From Brown’s Roy Layne Road property, the Bullitt County Sheriff searched on foot down the hill to Charlee’s home in the hopes of discovering clues that might help solve the case, such as dog traces or scents.
According to Charlee’s family, she was in the hospital on Saturday morning but was doing fine.
