11-year-old girl who vanished minutes into boat ride with neighbor found dead: Police

A 41-year-old Ohio pistillate is accused of endangering an 11-year-old miss who disappeared conscionable minutes into a vessel thrust connected Lake Erie and was aboriginal recovered dormant successful the water.

Police took Kristen Gerrie into custody past week and charged her with 1 number of kid endangerment with creating a important hazard to wellness oregon information aft Angelique Cunningham vanished soon aft the vessel near the harbor. Authorities confirmed her decease connected Monday.

Angelique, Gerrie, and 38-year-old Jonathan Ciha departed from Meinke Marina successful Jerusalem Township precocious Wednesday evening aboard a recreational boat, according to a study from Toledo, Ohio, ABC affiliate WTVG.

Lucas County Sheriff Mike Navarre reportedly told the presumption that the kid was nary longer connected the vas little than 15 minutes aft it departed.

Investigators person not publically disclosed what happened aboard the boat.

Angelique's household members told WTVG that Gerrie was 1 of the victim's neighbors.

Dispatchers archetypal received a telephone astir 1:30 a.m. Thursday from a pistillate who claimed she had swum to enactment from a boat, The Toledo Blade reported. That pistillate was aboriginal identified arsenic Gerrie.

About 9 hours later, exigency crews responded to a distress telephone adjacent the Toledo h2o intake crib, wherever searchers recovered Ciha's assemblage floating successful the h2o adjacent the Meinke Marina.

In a Monday news release, the Lucas County Coroner's Office ruled that Ciha drowned, though the circumstances and mode of his decease stay nether investigation.

The vessel was aboriginal recovered bare adjacent West Sister Island, section CBS affiliate WTOL reported.

As crews searched the occidental basin of Lake Erie, officials announced Friday they had exhausted each disposable resources and transitioned the cognition from a rescue ngo to a betterment effort.

On Sunday morning, searchers recovered Angelique's remains adjacent the shoreline by Meinke Marina "in the aforesaid vicinity" wherever Ciha's assemblage was recovered. An autopsy performed that time confirmed her decease was besides "consistent with drowning."

Investigators person not said what grounds led to Gerrie's apprehension beyond alleging that Angelique was successful her attraction erstwhile she disappeared. Family members described Gerrie arsenic the girl's neighbor, portion the sheriff's bureau identified her arsenic the child's caregiver, WTVG reported.

Gerrie was released from detention aft posting a $50,000 surety bond. She is scheduled to look successful tribunal for her arraignment connected Tuesday, records show.