UPDATE: Missing Child Found
Within 24 hours of my posting the missing child alert the girl was brought to the local police. The issue is still being investigated so there are no details other than that while shaken and scared, the girl was unharmed. Frisina (the girl's uncle and legal guardian) thanked everyone online for their assistance; he states in his follow up posts that the sheriff's department moved slowly because they were determined to treat the situation as a typical runaway teen scenario, but changed their tune when they were inundated by phone calls from angry citizens both local and from afar (thanks to twitter and web-based contacts of Frisina) regarding why they weren't doing more.
In fact- it's believed that the people she was with returned her because they saw something about her on the internet. So for any utterer's who may have seen my post and went to his site to check out the news and proceeded to assist in your own way (reposting the alert, donating to his reward fund, calling the local sheriff's department- whatever)- thanks for your help.
Further, Frisina is trying to pull together some resources to develop a kind of How-To so that other parents can learn from this situation, learn how to put the web and social media tools to effect and assist in their own missing child searches. If you would like to assist him in this endeavor, email him at lifesabluff@gmail.com
Links:
http://tinyurl.com/foundgirl1
http://tinyurl.com/foundgirl2
Thank you all!
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