Dec 27, 2007 9:21 am US/Eastern
Abducted Children Found Safe In Southwest Phila.
PHILADELPHIA (CBS 3) ―
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An Amber Alert was cancelled after two abducted children were safely recovered in Southwest Philadelphia Wednesday.
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An area family expressed their relief and joy after two young
children were found in West Philadelphia after they were
abducted during a car theft Wednesday.
Six-year-old George Hionas and his three-year-old sister Kaliopi Hionas were
found safely inside their SUV at 61st and Passyunk Streets at about 9:30 p.m.
"Very, very happy, I can't even think of the words but the Philadelphia
Police did an absolutely, 110 percent great job," father Nicholas Hionas
said.
The siblings were sleeping in the backseat of a SUV in the 3200 block of Baring
Street when the children's mother went inside a
relative's home at about 7 p.m.
Police said an unknown suspect entered the running vehicle and
drove off with the two children still inside.
An Amber Alert was quickly issued and the children's father, Nicolas Hionas,
made a plea to the suspect.
"You don't want to know what I'm going through right now. It's just very
difficult, very hard okay, hoping for the best," Nicolas said.
The vehicle, a silver BMW SUV, was located two hours later in the parking lot
of a Southwest Philadelphia parking lot by a sergeant
with Philadelphia's 12th District.
"There was two children in the car," Philadelphia Police Sgt. Charles
Pattineo said. "I asked the kids if they were okay. They were okay, kids were
scared."
The children's father, who works as a pilot, expressed his thanks and said he
learned a valuable lesson after the frightening incident.
"Just be really, really, really, really careful with all your kids. You
never know what happens. See it could've turned out the other way and I don't
want to think about it," Hionas said.
Investigators are reviewing surveillance footage from the shopping center where
the car was found in hopes of identifying the suspect. If you have any
information, contact Philadelphia Police.
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