The caretakers of missing four-year-old Athena Brownfield are arrested

The caretakers responsible for missing Oklahoma toddler Athena Brownfield were arrested yesterday on child neglect charges while the search for the child continues.

Four-year-old Athena has been missing since at least Tuesday, when a postal worker found her older sister, five, wandering alone outside near their home in Cyril, Oklahoma.

Alysia Adams, 30, and her husband Ivon were responsible for looking after the girls.

The couple were arrested separately on Thursday; Alysia was taken into custody in Oklahoma while Ivon was arrested in Arizona.

The two are not believed to have been together when the child went missing.

Alysia Adams, 30, and her husband Ivon were responsible for looking after the girls when Athena disappeared. Both were charged with child abuse

Four-year-old Athena Brownfield has been missing since at least Tuesday. That’s when police realized she had disappeared after receiving a call from a postal worker who was wandering her sister on the streets near her home in Cyril, Oklahoma

Alysia Adams, 30, and her husband Ivon (right) look after the girls. She is now in custody for child neglect – but Athena remains missing

Garbage service was suspended in the town of Cyril on Thursday as police searched for “leads” and a truck was towed from the Adams home on Thursday night following the carer’s arrest.

Neighbors told local broadcaster KFOR that they had not seen Alysia since last Thursday.

They noticed a children’s tricycle in the middle of the road, which they thought was strange, but neither Athena nor her sister saw it.

On Thursday, Adams was sent to the county jail for child neglect.

Still no sign of Athena. Adam’s husband was not arrested.

It remains unclear why the girls were taken into Adam’s care and if there were other children living in the home.

Part of the police investigation is to determine where Athena’s birth parents are and if they have anything to do with her disappearance, authorities said yesterday.

“Right now, our top priority is to track them down and find out who is next to blame.

The house where the child was supposed to live with his sister in Cyril. Neighbors say they haven’t seen Alysia since last Thursday

Oklahoma Highway Patrol officers searched lakes near the child’s home on Thursday

“But we have to find this little girl,” said Brook Arbeitsman, a spokesman for the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.

Athena’s five-year-old sister, whose name was not released, was not in need of medical attention when she was found.

She is now in state custody.

The postal worker told police he quickly realized the child “wasn’t where it was supposed to be.”

When he reported finding her, authorities launched an investigation and found that Athena was missing.

It’s unclear if Adams or her husband were in the house at the time.