Authorities said Pickett told them her daughter was asleep in the backseat of the vehicle so it would be found faster.
Pickett has been charged with falsification, police said. Franklin County Children Services officials have taken the child and two siblings, ages 5 and 2, into protective custody.
Police said they also arrested 22-year-old Bradley Stroud on a charge of grand theft auto.
*2nd UPDATE 10:33AM 1/30/17 The missing child, Janylia Fails has been located unharmed in the area of where the car was...
Posted by Columbus Division of Police on Monday, January 30, 2017
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