Missing Person - Someone Took Missing Toddler - The Associated Press - Maine Police Chief

By GLENN ADAMS, Associated Press

WATERVILLE, Maine (AP) A 20-month-old girl exactly who vanished a week ahead of Christmas right after being put that will pickup bed with your ex father's home appeared to be taken away in addition to didn't wander out there on the woman own, detectives mentioned Monday when they publicised the biggest prize ever offered from the state to support choose a not often known person.

It marked before since the find Ayla Reynolds initiated in which law enforcement have got right explained they don't think your lady left that residence simply by herself.

"At this aspect within the analysis . we have been self-confident that Ayla managed not wander out of your home through herself," Waterville law enforcement Chief Joseph Massey explained at a information management meeting of which he publicised a new $30,000 reward appeared to be ready to buy for help getting her. "We believe this anyone has been involved with taking the girl from the actual house, and that's where the focus of your investigation includes turned."

The reward, collected having contributions from occupants and also firms in the Waterville area, could be the most significant at any time available in Maine for just a lacking person, point out Department with Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland said.

Massey stated the developments inside a unknown that's been recently showcased on countrywide television system plans haven't shifted your matter from a missing -person instance to a criminal investigation. Despite the passing belonging to the Christmas holiday along with no indicator regarding Ayla, police arrest remain devoted to discovering her, the chief said.

"The intensity on the analysis can be when higher today since it seemed to be the 1st day," he or she said. "We keep employ each and every reference we have."

Massey had been started during the particular news flash discussion simply by Waterville attorney John Nale, which appealed for your safe gain regarding Ayla.

"I question plus I plead with all the human being or perhaps folks who've Ayla Reynolds make make sure you maintain the woman's safe plus return the woman's safely that will us," Nale said.

Hundreds of police arrest officers, activity wardens along with local citizens have already been searching for Ayla since the girl was claimed lacking through the woman's father, Justin DiPietro, to the morning hours with Dec. 17. Massey reported some sort of review in regards to the circumstance on the Fox network television system "America's Most Wanted" throughout the saturday and sunday produced a number of leads, that are currently being checked by police.

DiPietro told investigators your dog past found Ayla when he or she put her to be able to bed that night before at his house in Waterville, a city of 16,000 citizens about twenty a long way north from the express capital, Augusta. He reported she was donning polka dot pajamas with the words "Daddy's Princess" on these folks as well as possessed some sort of thrown with your ex destroyed kept arm.

Ayla long been using her father after child contentment personnel intervened although the woman's mother, Trista Reynolds, tested their self in to a 10-day rehabilitation program.

Reynolds, which finished the actual rehab, acquired sent in the courtroom documents which the lady said she hoped would cause the particular gain involving the woman's daughter. The processing arrived a single day prior to Ayla appeared to be final seen.

DiPietro includes reported she has "no thought precisely what transpired to Ayla as well as who will be responsible." He claimed the other day his / her family would carry out "everything you can easlily that can help on this investigation and obtain Ayla again home."