11-year-old Jonesboro girl located 3 days after running away with unknown adult - The Atlanta Journal Constitution

Hours aft Clayton constabulary announced that national agents had joined the hunt for the Jonesboro miss and were treating the probe arsenic a lawsuit of quality trafficking, officials said she had been recovered alive. No different details were released, including if she had been safely recovered oregon the big with her had been arrested.

The lawsuit began erstwhile officers responded to her location astir 4 p.m. Tuesday, astir 20 minutes aft household members said she near without support carrying a packed bag, constabulary said. At the time, her relatives told investigators they believed the kid had near with an big antheral and that she had been readying this “for immoderate time.”

After initially announcing the disappearance arsenic a missing idiosyncratic case, constabulary shared a much urgent update that said the 11-year-old whitethorn person been successful danger. A quality trafficking probe was opened with the assistance of a national agency, Clayton constabulary spokeswoman Sgt. Julia Isaac said astatine a Friday greeting quality conference.

Before the kid was located, Isaac said investigators did not person immoderate identifying details astir the big suspect, including the person’s gender.

When the lawsuit was archetypal announced Wednesday, investigators raised the anticipation that she was traveling to Texas. However, Isaac said the miss was apt inactive successful Georgia connected Friday greeting and she was recovered conscionable a fewer hours later.

Her parents told Channel 2 Action News their girl deleted her societal media accounts and had not been answering her phone. They judge she met the big connected Instagram earlier moving away, Channel 2 reported.

“Technology is ever-advancing, ever-developing caller programs, caller apps. So, 1 of the things is to beryllium alert of what your kid is doing connected the phone, what apps they’re progressive successful oregon playing on,” Isaac said. “Some of these games bash person chats. Just beryllium careful.”

Although constabulary had asked for assistance locating the child, they warned the nationalist against derailing their investigators.

“Since this probe has started, we person had galore outer parties interrupt oregon interfere with the advancement of this investigation,” constabulary said connected societal media, a constituent reinforced by Isaac connected Friday morning.

Asked astir radical hindering the investigation, Isaac said, “They deliberation they’re helping, but they’re not.”

Because the miss near the location of her ain volition, the lawsuit was ne'er considered a kidnapping and did not suffice for a statewide Levi’s Call, Georgia’s mentation of an Amber Alert, Isaac said.

Police did not accidental however the kid was recovered oregon if they had made interaction with the suspect. It is not wide if the 11-year-old suffered superior harm portion she was distant from her parents.

Isaac said immoderate imaginable charges person not been determined and would lone beryllium filed aft the probe was complete.

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