Police are asking for help to find a 5-year-old girl who was kidnapped from her home in a northern suburb of Calgary sometime between July 10 and July 11.
Taliyah Leigh Marsman was last seen at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, July 10. The next day, her mother, Sara Baillie, didn’t show up for work. Relatives tried to reach her unsuccessfully and then, at about 8:30 p.m., police were called to her home in Panorama Hills, Calgary.
Police found the mother dead in the apartment. The girl was gone.
“The child is believed to have been abducted by an unknown person,” police stated in a Facebook post.
Her mother’s death is treated as homicide, though the police haven’t released the cause of death yet.
An Amber Alert was issued for the child at approximately 1:40 a.m., on Tuesday, July 12.