Auboni Champion, whose eight-month old son Miguel was abducted from her home in Houston back in 2004, said she was “overwhelmed” at the news that she would soon see her son again. “Overwhelmed, because it’s been eight years — he made eight on the first of March,” Champion told Houston’s KTRK television. Police earlier this week arrested Krystle Rochelle Tanner, 26, the woman who had been entrusted to care for the baby and who disappeared with him.

Authorities told the television station that Tanner, who was located near Fort Worth, some 320 km from Houston, is being held in jail without bond pending a court hearing. Miguel’s mother told KTRK that Tanner was a close family friend whom she had named her son’s godmother.