Rae-Leigh Bradbury
Rae-Leigh Bradbury
Rae-Leigh Bradbury is an 18 year-old Texan girl known for being the first child to have been rescued through the use of an AMBER Alert.
Background
Early Life
A young Rae meeting president George W Bush.
Rae-Leigh was born and raised in the north Fort Worth area of Texas. Unfortunately at just 8 weeks of being brought into the world by her mother Patricia Sokolowski she was abducted by her babysitter. A day later, through the use of one of the very first AMBER Alert issued, she was found.
Rae-Leigh Bradbury continued living in Fort Worth with her mother who later remarried. She attended Boswell High School where she graduated in 2017. She was the captain of the
Cheerleading team and has shared some of her tumbles and practices on her YouTube
channel.
Amber Alert
Photo of Rae with her parents.
In November of 1998, after 8 weeks of being born, she was taken from her Arlington apartment complex by her neighbor and babysitter, Sandra Joyce Fallis.
After a day missing, the cops decided to issued an AMBER Alert, which no one had done at the time as it was a new notion introduced in regards to missing children.
No one had heard of it at the time and neither did Patricia.
Within 90 minutes of the first alert ever being issued, a motorist spotted Fallis’ distinctive turquoise 1993 Ford Ranger on Interstate 20 near FM 1382.
He contacted police, who followed the truck, pulled it over and found Rae-Leigh asleep in her child safety seat.
The baby was hungry and dirty but unharmed.
In 2000, a Tarrant County jury found Fallis guilty of kidnapping and sentenced her to 10 years of probation.
Several months later, her probation was revoked when she was arrested for shoplifting and she was sentenced to eight years in prison.