Mother of Teen Trapped in Ravine Speaks

Katherine Perreault, the mother of 17-year-old Kourtney Thibeault, who spent two days trapped in a ravine after swerving off the road to avoid a deer, spoke to reporters on Tuesday about her family's ordeal.

Last Tuesday, Thibeault texted her parents to let them know she was on her way home to Topsham from a friend's house. She never arrived, and police started searching for the teen the next day. Perreault also organized a search, mapping out a 5-mile route where her daughter's cell phone company said they had located a signal. Just after midnight on Friday morning, police found Thibeault alive, pinned inside her SUV in a deep ravine just off of Route 196.

Perreault said her daughter is heavily sedated as she recovers at Central Maine Medical Center from a broken thigh bone and jaw bone. Perreault says she never doubted she would find her daughter alive, and is grateful to the police officers, family, and friends who helped to find her.

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