Missing Florida Girl Found Alive, Police Say

**deathgodusmc** · 04-13-10, 10:34 AM

(April 13) -- An 11-year-old girl with autism has been found alive after spending four nights in the swampy woods near her Winter Springs, Fla., police say.

Winter Springs police code enforcement officer Butch West told AOL News: "The only thing I can confirm is that she's alive."

The police chief was to hold a news conference on the case of Nadia Bloom this morning.

The Metro Church said this morning that member James King found Nadia and that she is in good shape but covered in bug bites, along with being tired and hungry, WESH reported on its Web site. A spokesman for the family also confirmed that she is alive and well, the Orlando TV station said.

MSNBC reported that people were forming a human chain to carry Nadia out of the woods on a stretcher. The cable network said she was in pretty good shape but was dehydrated and would be taken by ambulance to a hospital for evaluation. It said there were no signs she had been abducted, just that she wandered into the woods.

Nadia was last seen Friday afternoon, riding her bike in her gated community. Her mother found her abandoned bicycle about a half-mile from their home and called authorities.

Search teams had looked through some 3,000 acres of alligator-infested wooded land near the subdivision where Nadia lives.

The search involved dive teams that looked through six bodies of water in the area, WESH reported. Officials, though, faced murky water that was up to 15 feet deep.

On Sunday, authorities learned from Nadia's sister that the 11-year-old liked exploring the outdoors and appeared to have taken with her a backpack, a camera, a video recorder and an American Girl Doll book, "Meet Lanie Holland," about a character who loves the outdoors.

With that information, authorities believed Nadia got lost while exploring the woods.

I've actually met this girl she lives near me. She's lucky and probably does not even know to what extent. She was found near Lake Jessup which just happens to have the largest population of alligators in the state. 3 different counties relocate gators to this lake. Good to see they found her.