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(CNN) -- A baby who had been missing for several days was found alive late Wednesday in a box underneath the bed of the child's sitter, Florida authorities announced early Thursday.
The sheriff of Washington County in rural northwest Florida carried the 7-month-old girl into the early morning news conference, announcing, "We are the proud papas of a little girl."
"This is Shannon Lee Dedrick, we found her safe, we do not usually get the happy endings that we have happened here today," an emotional Sheriff Bobby Haddock said, cradling the baby as she clutched her pink pacifier.
"If you want to see a bunch of grown men cry, tonight we rushed her to the hospital and we [were] all calling home to our wives to let them know we found this baby safe."
The sitter, Susan Baker, her husband, James Baker, and another individual, Crystina Lynn Mercer, have been detained but have not been charged. Haddock has scheduled another news conference at noon ET (11 a.m. CT) to provide additional details.
The incident happened near Chipley, which is located in Florida's panhandle region near the Alabama state line.
The baby was was reported missing on Saturday morning by her mother, and authorities believe she went missing sometime between 3 a.m. and 11 a.m. that same day from her parents' bedroom in their Chipley home, CNN affiliate WMBB-TV reported.
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