Neighbor Tells Reporter Where to Find Missing Baby and Her Mother

FAIRFAX, Va. — After an Amber Alert is blasted across the state for a missing child reportedly abducted by her mother Wednesday morning, TV crews went to work talking to neighbors.

These conversations tend to lean to sidewalk analysis of the suspect or what kind of neighbor they were. Rarely do these interviews end in another state, with the reporter and cameraman helping to recover the abducted 6-week old baby as law enforcement carries off the baby's mother, Flora Khatun.

Andrea McCarren and photojournalist Dave Satchell at WUSA9 had interviewed a few people around Khatun's home in Annandale when one neighbor told the reporter an address in Hyattsville, Md., where Khatun may have taken the baby. But the neighbor didn't want to speak to police.

"All I kept thinking was 'Journalist. Humanity. News. The safety of a baby,'" McCarren said in a WUSA9 report.

She shared the address with police before heading to the location, 45 minutes away. When the TV crew arrived, a car sought by police in the case was found in the parking lot.

"This was the key to the missing 6-week-old baby," McCarren said.

Read more about the discovery and eventual arrest at WUSA9.

PHOTO of Flora Khatun courtesy of Fairfax County Police