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911 tapes reveal drama behind Rainn Peterson's rescue
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NORTH BLOOMFIELD — "Hey, I found Baby Rainn, and she's alive," Victor Sutton of North Bloomfield told a 911 dispatcher at 6:23 p.m. Sunday.
So began the 7-minute call that ended the two-day search for Rainn Peterson, the 2-year-old Bloomfield Township girl who went missing Friday night from her great-grandparents house on state Route 45.
The 911 recording was all business as Sutton calmly explained that he was in a field off of Peck-Leach Road, just west of Route 45 and that he had spotted the girl sleeping in some tall grass.
When the dispatcher had relayed his location to deputies and ambulance personnel so they could get to his location, it started to sink in to Sutton and the dispatcher that this ordeal that many feared would end in tragedy had taken a dramatic and lucky turn.
"Oh, I just got goosebumps," the dispatcher said to Sutton.
"Oh my God, me too," Sutton said. "I couldn't give up on this kid, thank God."
Sutton, on a four-wheeler Sunday, had been looking for the girl along with many others, Saturday and Sunday and found her just before dark.
"Oh my gosh, talk about luck," Sutton said to the dispatcher as they waited for help to arrive.
In the recording, Sutton could be heard making small talk with the girl.
"You're OK, Sweetheart. I swear you're going to be OK."
Sutton held the girl after asking the dispatcher if it was OK to pick her up.
"Hi, baby. Hi, baby. You're so pretty. You're doing good, Darling," he said, adding to the dispatcher, "She's tough."
The girl is in St. Joseph Warren Hospital after being taken there from the scene.