Missing Girl Found in Woods
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
(Tuesday, May 9)
The search for a missing mentally challenged girl in Luzerne County is concluded Tuesday night with a happy ending.
WYOU News was there as 14-year-old Samantha Dotter was taken out of the woods by rescue workers.
The girl went missing Tuesday afternoon after she jumped out the back of a bus window and walked away.
Nearly 200 volunteers spent hours in the woods near Hazleton General Hospital looking for the girl.
Investigators say she had had a disturbing day at school.
She was found just before 9:30 Tuesday night.
Police say Dotter was not hurt.
But she was taken to the hospital to get checked out.
