Vancouver Island mother overjoyed missing daughter found safe in Europe

SAANICH (NEWS 1130) – A Saanich mom will likely soon be reunited with her young daughter, three years after she taken out of the country by the mother’s former partner.

Tasha Brown has been been on a desperate search for her now four-year-old daughter Kaydance, and finally received the news she had been found off Jersey, a small island in the English Channel on July 2.

“I am swirling. I am happy. I am overwhelmed,” Brown said in a video posted to Youtube. “The best news I could ever imagine.”

"The best news I could ever imagine!"
A Saanich mother will be reunited with her (now) 4-year-old daughter who went missing 3 years ago.
She was found on Jersey, an Island in the English Channel.
The mother's former partner is accused of kidnapping her.

— Lasia Kretzel (@rhymeswpretzel) July 4, 2019

Sgt. Julie Fast with Saanich RCMP says Kaydance’s other mother Lauren Etchells and Etchells’ British parents, Brian and Angela were apprehended as they tried to take a boat onto the island.

“(Jersey Police) came across them, three adults and two little children. They were with a 13-foot inflatable dingy that had just landed on the shore,” Fast said, adding the second child is a three-year-old Etchells had during another relationship in Canada.

The boat allegedly used by Lauren Etchells and her parents, Brian and Angela, to get to Jersey. (Saanich RCMP handout)

The trio have pleaded guilty to charges including child neglect, aiding and abetting, and immigration offences.

Etchells gave birth to Kaydance, but was under a custody order preventing her from leaving Canada with the child when she took the one-year-old to the United Kingdom in 2016.

The two children have been taken into foster care until arrangements can be made to return them to their other parent or another guardian.

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