Abducted Toddler Paislee Shultis Discovered Hidden Under Staircase
The young girl was abducted in 2019 and discovered two years later at her paternal grandfather’s home
On July 13, 2019, in Cayuga Heights, a small community located on the outskirts of Ithaca, New York, a custody battle turned heated.
At the center were four-year-old Paislee Shultis and her older sister, who was already school-age. The older sister was picked up from school by her maternal grandmother and aided by a social worker and police escort. They headed over to the biological parent’s home to get Paislee, but when they arrived, the house was empty.
The parents, Kimberly Cooper and Kirk D. Shultis Jr. had long since been the believed abductors of Paislee, and several properties were searched, but no sign of the child was found. They lost custody when a babysitter came forward with concerns about the children’s well-being in the home. Kirk Shultis was later arrested and charged with possession of methamphetamines and heroin.
Prior to the abduction, Cooper and Shultis had already lost two daughters in infancy before…
