Runaway sitter arrested in Ala. now in NC jail

RAEFORD, N.C. — A 17-year-old baby sitter accused of kidnapping a 9-month-old child and heading to Alabama is due in a North Carolina court.

The Fayetteville Observer reported Monday that officials say Renesha Shante Griner was returned to Hoke County Sunday night. Sheriff Hubert Peterkin says she was held under $500,000 bond.

Griner is charged with first-degree kidnapping and has a hearing scheduled Monday.

Peterkin says investigators didn’t learn much about what happened during questioning and he thought the young woman is going to seek a lawyer.

The sheriff says the rising high school senior convinced a former boyfriend in Opp, Ala., that the baby was his. Investigators say that the baby’s real mother had left the child with the sitter last weekend.

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