Paislee Shultis disappeared in 2019, with police suspecting that the young girl was kidnapped by her parents, who had just lost custody. The investigation had brought Saugerties, New York police to the house multiple times, before a fresh tip led to a search warrant and a detective seeing what looked like a blanket under the stairs.
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Kidnapped by your parents?
She wasn’t held captive, her parents were going to lose custody and they fled to the grandfather’s house. This happened in my town
What happened to the other sister?
I have so many questions. This story wasn’t reported very well.
@Michael Syvius Ah! Well, reporter probably should have mentioned those tidbits, for those of us out of the loop.
@Michael Syvius Getting a meth charge, or so the story goes, does not mean they are horrible parents or addicts. And even if they were addicts, it’s not a lot different than all the ‘legal’ crap most people take. We need to get parents help instead of erasing them. The courts are incompetent and know nothing about what’s best for a child.
The headlines are making it sound like she was forced to live under the stairs for 2 years. But it seems like they (this is still bad, mind you) were hiding her there when certain people (i.e. cops) would come around to potentially search around. Again, still horrible, but two VERY different things if this is the case
@ZACH Well since she was being hidden under stairs on some moldy wet blankets, I’m betting the living conditions weren’t so great. And I know she didn’t spend two years there, but no better place to put her, mom and dad?
@Jenny Cococure .. News didn’t say they were moldy. It definitely didn’t say that’s where she was kept. With the information we have, the steps could have been a play area that could be closed off. The mom was under there too. What I DO know is CPS and Family Court are corrupt and destroy lives.
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Hang them all.
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This story makes zero sense.
I’m guessing she wasn’t held captive under the stairs the whole time. They probably had legal problems, drugs I’m guessing and didnt want to lose their daughter. ?? I mean if they really didn’t care they would of just let the other people take her. 🤷 Ok the messed up part is the other family members and community probably didn’t know if she was really missing or just being hidden by the parents.
Key word – “her parents”. Unless they have caused the child great harm, they are still her parents.
Sickos
wait a minute, Whos a more legal guardian than her own parents LMAO!!! The Superior West kicking in again!
So Never mind the fact that her parents lied about her being with them for over two years, Never mind the fact they held her under the stairs with soiled wet blankets. Her own parents … what good is it doing to have that child be with those kinds of parents? They lost custody of their own child … I’m sure they aren’t great parents … so legally for the benefit of an innocent child they can’t be the LEGAL guardians of the child
Petition to stuff her parents under the stairs
Why are the parents and grandfather in JAIL ???
Because they forced a missing child for two years that they lied about having …. To be held in 8-12 sq feet under the stairs. Instead of utilizing the legal system to obtain their parental rights back … also they had other children who weren’t living with them for whatever reason.
Lucifer hard at work
How shameful
im glad the little girl is safe.
She was safe with her parents.
What pigs!!
Imagine how much you failed in life when the law says you having custody of your own flesh-and-blood child is considered a “kidnapping.”
I don’t know these people or who anyone else is but had the State ever stole my child you’re darn right I’d steal ’em back!
So why did parents have their rights severed?
Tell you what, how about locking up these inhumane a**holes for a very long time. That poor child will be traumatized for life.
Parents to “stay away”? Is that it?
Typical cross country hikers
Bring back the death penalty. And make it more swift. Only one appeal.
Can’t even trust your own mother. What a shame!
We don’t know why
Abducted their own child.
Ordered to stay away ? You mean they’re not in jail ?
They won’t put them in prison
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Find someone who’s terminally ill and finds this to be totally unacceptable and step up and handle this.
Wow. You have no clue about the truth of this situation, yet you wish death upon these people. So much for evolution.
why? do all that to your child
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Both parents at fault, but NBC only singles out the mother. 😂
It’s her mom and dad
I hope parents get gang fisted in jail
horrible reporting, no inside information. hope the kid isn’t going into foster care because that is a horror story in itself.
I only pray she is too young to remember most of this, and she has a happy, loving life with whoever is her guardians from here on.
“whoever her guardians are”? Parents are the guardians of children. If parents make mistakes or even break the law, they are still parents, as long as they don’t hate and harm the child over and over. Unfortunately, you fail to realize how incompetent Family Courts are and how little they know about what’s best for children. If you did, then you wouldn’t assume they were right in taking the child from her parents.
I too hope her legal guardians are getting her therapy. There must have been a real bad situation with her birth parents for her to be taken from them in the 1st place. Apparently, her older sibling was removed from that home too.
@Nan S Wrong. Good parents are removed daily, by the thousands, by the lawyers who run family courts. Would you want a lawyer or a young adult with a bachelor’s degree deciding if you were for for your children?
As for people demanding more information:
This is a child. I don’t think they will divulge much in terms of names and the like due to needing to protect her privacy as she recovers from a potentially traumatic time.
People are on the whole different level of emotions and I don’t know what else to say about this
Little more info before we crucify these people.
“remarkably healthy”? “Kidnapped by her parents”? Just because corrupt Family Court takes away custody, doesn’t mean it’s right.
That’s quite a hand sign on that little girls photo this looks like the work of the I do not see who do you guys think did this you think it was the people who you do not see
She was kidnapped by her parents? How does that work? What they do? Need more info
Their child was taken away from them by the state because of abuse. They made her watch Trump’s speeches.
@Bill Turner 🤣😂
The child’s worth a lot of money lot of people benefit on this kind of stuff I just hope the secret societies will take care of her now maybe St Jude might come in help
Somebody is going to spend more than 2 years in jail for this.
Those parents look like siblings #america
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People are so stupid today I really hate this world
how can a parent kidnap their own kids? doesnt make sense lol.
Now report the Durham report findings!
Some how the journalistic principles of Who , What, Why , When , and How ,have been lost in America .Sensation without substance has become the norm .
NBC News’ YouTube channel is typically cryptic, poorly researched, misrepresented, and often factually false.
Nothing good was ahead for her, t.g.s.w.f.
Sounds like an law and order episode.
Awesome that they were Caught!!!!!!!
the system is wrought with children removed from parents that shouldn’t have been. a child is a great risk of death, SA , almost tenfold, inside of the system. in many states cps is actually managed by a private company, some states contracts it out. They get $ for every child that comes into their custody by the state. it’s VERY disturbing. The group that’s affected the most by this are people with low/poor economic status.. as they likely would not be able to fight it legally.. … i have no idea why Paisley was removed , it may have been valid, it may not have. regardless the system is inherently corrupted and many people are unaware.
Interesting. So, why did the authorities remove THIS child? Why was she not in danger?
Sounds like the stairs were hust a hiding place. 🤔 a new low for them to tell the story as if she lived under there full time.
So we’re not being told everything…. Again. Very sad. We need the whole story. Why’d they lost custody in the first place?
So according to other sources, the parents are drug addicts (meth) they have two children and lost custody of both. The mother went to the residence of the “custodial” parents and “kidnapped” her daughter. She brought the child to her dad and grand dad. The child did not go to school and had no medical care. She was hidden under the step with her mom when police searched the house. She was healthy, but could not read and was not getting any medical care. Her parents are technically criminals…but are more so just selfish. They didn’t do what was best for her. I cannot imagine losing my kids though.
Thanks for the context. That would be my rock bottom (losing kids). I’d do whatever to be with them and make sure they had what they needed.
Miracle.
They must have had Prince Andrew over for dinner and got some ideas.
Animals complete ANIMAL’S and out no bail
Family courts are worthless. I’m involved with a children’s home where recently an 8 yr old was returned to her drug addict mother in the name of “family unification” only to be pumped out BY HER MOTHER to as many as 10 men PER DAY!!! There needs to be a much lower tolerance for questionable parenting. Kids should not be off the grid.
*kidnappings are a different story but when in parents’ care, zero tolerance.
Hmmm…..strange they didn’t look there right away.
the kidnapper looked a lot like Bradley Cooper
Wait they ordered the parents to stay away from her does that mean they’re not in jail? Somebody who’s willing to kidnap their own child and keep them under the stairs should be in jail.
Yes, my thoughts exactly. When they lost custody it must have been a serious reason, and losing custody sure did not mean they stayed away. Instead they kidnapped her. I can’t fathom that they aren’t in jail. Hopefully that child is under close watch.
I worked many years ago in a preschool where the chance of abduction by non custody parent was high. That child absolutely blossomed with loving care, from being afraid and in tears when asked to rest for nap time, to being an absolutely confident lovely young woman.
I’m overjoyed the little girl is safe .as for her captors should drag them out and shoot them
Quick smart thought and decision is muddied by moral abhorrent behavior seen by God. God does not give hall passes if the Bible is your text to define God.
Good grief, that looks like the priest holes in British homes from their civil war period.
Stay away from their daughter? What about jail?!
oh my god. Jesus save us
A parent can’t kid nap their own child, that phrase is dumb.
Anything to distract the publics attention to cover for Biden ! this fake news system in the country should be under investigation for fraud and lies ! It’s ridiculous !
She’s doing the 666 hindsight
Fake News and head lines. Missing 6-Year-Old Girl Found Under Stairs After Being Held Captive For 2 Years. Her parents did not want to loose her and she is smiling and looks ok to me.
She’s beautiful and cute 😍
There’s a lot of questions unanswered in this story.
She was with her biological parents this entire time.
What had they done to lose custody?
The doctors said the child was in perfect health when found. 🤔
Yea something is not right about this story. Something is not clicking. Where is the rest of the story?
Omg! God! Charge the parents
So her parents kidnapped her, she wasn’t missing at all,
Is it kidnapping if it’s your own child?
Sad but why? Good thing the missing young girl did not get molested. Thank God for his guidance on the young girl….
Yeah but we dont even know why they lost custody
Going to send her to an abusive ” foster home” now where they warehouse a bunch of kids for $1500 a month per kid. Then they’ll lose track and the kids never heard from again?
What? Legal guardian? What?
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Learn the basic good parenting if you don’t want to be charged kidnapping of your own flesh and blood.
IT SEEMS LIKE THE GOVERNMENT TRIED TO TAKE THE PARENTS KID AWAY AND THEY KIDNAPPED HER TO KEEP CUSTODY OF THEIR KID!!!! I DONT THINK THIS KID WAS ABUSED! I THINK THEY DIDNT WANT THE GOVERNMENT TO TAKE CONTROL OF WHAT IS ACTUALLY THEIRS!!! LOVE CAN MAKE YOU BREAK THE LAW IF THE LAW DOESNT UNDERSTAND!!!! I WOULD NEVER LET ANYONE TAKE MY CHILDREN FROM ME!!!!!! NEVER!!!!!!
Christ.
This evil is disturbing
“Stay away from your daughter”. 🤔 Need more context. Under certain circumstances,.. I can’t say I wouldn’t do the same to be with my kids.
just sad
It’s her parents… wtf. She is healthy
So we’re they arrested? How long did they get? Apparently not alot if they are supposed to stay away from her
This smells of no-good interference of the parent child relationship. Imagine…. The biological parents were the ones caring for their own child for over 2 years and she was just fine. Also, no one is reporting that the house they were in belonged to the biological grandfather. This family was literally willing fugitives to keep their own daughter. The stink of over reaching government interference is all over this story.
Did the little girl stay under the stairs for 24/7 or did she sleep there just at night?
Did the mother hurt her? If not this is BS
Bizarre but happy end at least
How was she missing if she was with her biological parents and grandfather?
Apparently the parents were taking care of her…she had friends, nice looking house. Could have been ten times worse. She wasn’t in some cage in the basement being abused and starved. Humans aren’t capable of judging what they don’t know. How many kids have ended up in worse situations, often hidden abuse, by fosters? The number has grown…background checks don’t prove anything. Yes, many are great, but far too many are NOT. I would rather let a pair of Golden Retrievers raise a child than most humans.
Alive and “safe”. Ugh