A 12-year-old girl whose disappearance galvanized a Georgia community has been found in Ohio. Hall County Sheriff Gerald Couch says Maria Gomez-Perez was found Thursday in Dover, Ohio.
It's great that she's been recovered alive and safe. But I generally question why this little girl felt so alone and so desperately wanted to leave home that she was seeking it from older men online? It also stands out to me that she messaged her dad from a new Facebook account to tell him that she was ok and not to look for her.
I hope she gets the help she needs for the causes as well as whatever the man might have done to her while she was abducted.
Second time I read someone ran away from home and they got tracked by online interaction with their old life. This case it was a phone number on the account.