A 12-year-old girl stole her father’s car, picked up a 14-year-old friend and drove to meet what they thought was a boy their agemore than 1,300 kilometers away.
However, the boy her age was not a boy at all, but a pedophile who posed as a boy coax the child on the internet for months.
The parents of the girl, named Jade Gregory, originally from Union county, in the state of Florida, United States, reported the girl missing not returning after she went to see her friend, Khloe Larson.
As discovered by the police, the two girls they corresponded on the web with an unknown person and planned to meet him in Louisiana.
For this, Jade he stole his father’s Ford Taurus and together with her friend they set out for the state of Louisiana, more than 1,300 kilometers away.
His sudden disappearance triggered a missing child alert and his youthful images appeared on billboards and television screens in several southern states.
The girls came to drive the family car from the Gainesville area to Mobile, Alabama, a journey of about five hours.
The authorities said they were not accompanied by an adult during the trip and so on they had voluntarily left their homes.
The girls were shocked to see their images on a television in an Alabama store andin the end they decided to turn themselves into the local police force.
The FBI is involved in the shocking case and is investigating the person they think the two girls were planning to meet.
Meanwhile the children they were returned safely to their families in Florida.
Meanwhile, authorities have stepped up their efforts to warn parents the danger of predators in the network and have urged close monitoring of their Internet activities.
Source: New York Post
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