Crime & Safety

Au Pair Files False Police Report, Claims Child Was Abducted: Police

The child was not abducted and was found a short time later after wandering off to a nearby park, police said.

An Arlington Heights au pair filed a false police report claiming that one of the three children she cared for was abducted on Saturday, the Daily Herald reports. Janina Majerczyk, 63, initially called 911 and said two men abducted the 3-year-old child but police later learned the child had simply wandered off.

The child was found a short time later at Camelot Park, according to the article.

Majerczyk is charged with filing a false police report. 

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