TACOMA - It's the talk of the nation: two Missouri boys who were found in the apartment of their alleged abductor.

The prayers of the victims' families have been answered.

Now a Tacoma mother says it could mean answered prayers for her missing daughter. Teekah Lewis.

Teresa English, Teekah's mother, says she remembers her as a happy child with a dazzling smile. It's a smile that disappeared 8 years ago when Teekah vanished.

"She was there, I looked back she was gone," says English.

Teekah, just a toddler, was snatched from a bowling alley in Tacoma. Since then, it's been 8 years of crying, praying and waiting.

"She needs to come home, the people need to let her go," English said. "It's been 8 long years and pain for my family!"

Teresa's certain that Teekah is alive, and says the missing Missouri boys discovered over the weekend make her believe it can happen again.

"Every child that is found out there it just makes me think my child is one day closer to coming home," insists English.

On January 23, it will be 8 years since Teekah went missing and no one has given up on her, especially her mother. The FBI, Tacoma Police Department, the Center for Missing and Exploited Children still want to find her, but on this day there are no leads, only renewed hope.

There are other children missing in our state. Sofia Juarez disappeared in February 2003 from Kennewick. She was last seen in her bedroom playing. Also, Cody Haynes of Kittitas vanished a year later under similar circumstances -- he was last seen in his own home.