UNION COUNTY, NJ. (THECOUNT) — The body of missing New Jersey mother, Yasemin Uyar, was located in Tennessee, according to family members. Uyar’s missing toddler was found alive Saturday.
According to reports, Uyar 24, and her 2-year-old son, Sebastian, were abducted by the boy’s father, 27-year-old Tyler Rios, on Thursday from her apartment in Union County, New Jersey.
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On Friday police issued an Amber Alert for the 2-year-old. Late Friday, Sebastian was found alive in Tennessee with his father at a family member’s house, but Yasemin was still missing.
Her family says she had a restraining order against Rios, who she has been trying to get away from and they had a long history of domestic violence.
“When you’ve had a child, and I call her a child because she’s my child, who’s dealt with domestic violence for a long period of time, in a way, in your mind you prepare for things. I never prepared, I don’t think, fully for this moment, but I think there’s a part of you, as the anger and the violence progresses in the relationship, where you know that there’s a day where you may face this possibility,” Uyar’s grandmother, Karen Uyar, said.
Rios is in police custody in Tennessee and being extradited to New Jersey to face charges.
A cause of death was not provided as of Sunday morning.
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Geo quick facts: Union County is a county in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2019 Census estimate, the county’s population was 556,341, making it the seventh-most populous of the state’s 21 counties – Wikipedia.