An AMBER Alert was issued for a 7-year-old girl who was reportedly abducted in Michigan.
The girl, Sapphire Palmer, was taken from Brighton by her mentally ill mother who is with a registered sex offender, 64-year-old Douglas Steven Stanko. He has two convictions for second-degree criminal sexual conduct.
According to the Livingston Daily, the mother, Amanda Hayward, 30, might be armed with a handgun.
The AMBER Alert says Hayward “s paranoid, delusional and may be armed” with a gun police say she recently had purchased.
“From what I’ve seen (Stanko) is a nice person,” Hayward’s father, Darryl Joseph Hayward, told the paper. “I’ve known him off and of probably a few years. I met him through Amanda.”
Amanda Hayward
