Missing 8-year-old girl last seen visiting mother at Long Island hotel found unharmed in Florida

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Monday, April 3, 2023
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MEDFORD, Suffolk County (WABC) -- An 8-year-old girl who went missing after visiting her mother at a Long Island hotel has been found in Florida, according to the Suffolk County Police Department.

Toni Simmons was last seen with her biological mother, Carrie Walker, at the Comfort Inn in Medford on April 1.

Simmons currently lives with her father in Brookhaven. When Simmons' father attempted to pick her up at the hotel the next day, Toni and her mother were nowhere to be found.

Walker, 31, was visiting from Florida at the time. She left the hotel in a black 2021 Jeep Compass with an Alabama license plate.

Walker was found in Florida on Monday with her daughter, who is unharmed.

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