NEW ROADS - A three-month-old child is safe after an AMBER Alert was issued in Pointe Coupee Parish Saturday evening.

The woman accused of taking the child is now facing an aggravated kidnapping warrant, but she says she did nothing wrong.

"Y’all just trying to put charges on me for something that’s false," said Carnasia Mims, the woman investigators say took the child from a home on Bayou Run Drive in New Roads.

State Police say the child was taken around 3:18 p.m., and the AMBER Alert was issued at 10:25 p.m. By 1 a.m., the baby had been found safe, and the alert was cleared.

The Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff’s Office says investigators gathered enough information to secure an arrest warrant for Mims on a charge of aggravated kidnapping.

"I would never hurt a baby, especially someone

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