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DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (WPEC) — A Florida woman was pulled from a sewer in Delray Beach Tuesday morning after being missing for 20 days.
The woman was identified as 43-year-old Lyndsey Kennedy.
On Tuesday morning a woman walking nearby called 911 to say she could hear a woman yelling for help from a sewer drain at an intersection.
Woman rescued from storm drain in Delray Beach. (Delray Beach Police)
After he rescue, Kennedy told police that on March 3, she went for a swim in a canal near her boyfriend’s house. She told them that while she was swimming, she came across a doorway near a shallow part of the canal.
Kennedy said she entered the doorway and noticed a tunnel.
She claimed she became curious as to where the tunnel led and continued to follow it. She told police the tunnel led to another tunnel and so on until she realized she was lost.
Kennedy told police she had been walking around the sewer system for approximately three weeks. On Tuesday, the days she was found, she explained she saw light and people walking by so she stayed in place until help arrived.
Kennedy was reported missing by her boyfriend on March 3, according to police.
Woman rescued from storm drain in Delray Beach. (Delray Beach Police)
Police said Kennedy appeared to be coherent and didn’t feel she needed to be Baker Acted, a law in Florida that allows doctors and mental health professionals the ability to commit a person for mental health treatment for up to 72 hours.
The police report states Kennedy’s mother was contacted. She told police her daughter has a history of mental illness and is a frequent user of illegal narcotics.
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