DETROIT – The search for a missing mother and her four children has ended after they were found safe on Friday.
Kornecia Waiters was last seen picking up her children from school about 4 p.m. Tuesday. She went to pick up her kids from Cornerstone Jefferson-Douglass Academy with her sons’ step-father, who also is the biological father of her daughters.
Police believe there may have been an abusive relationship. On Wednesday, they took the step-father into custody on child abuse charges in a separate case, police said.
Everyone was last seen leaving the children’s school in a silver Ford Crown Victoria with distinctive red rims. Police originally said the Michigan license plate number of the Crown Victoria is DSL 0219, but on Friday they said they found a Crown Victoria with that plate and realized it was the wrong vehicle. They had the wrong plate number.
Waiters was last seen picking up her sons, who are 9 years old and 11 years old, from their school in the 6800 block of Nevada Avenue in Detroit on Tuesday.
Police said they were found Friday and are safe. They were being taken to the Detroit Police Department. Child Protective Services is involved in this case and will have to decide who has custody of the children from this point, police said.
Police said was no Amber Alert issued because they had concerns for their safety, but there was no evidence that they were in danger.
Again, she was with her sons’ step-father, who is also the biological father of her two daughters. Her daughters are 2 years old and 4 years old.