Authorities in Mississippi have located a missing 13-year-old girl from Texas who was found living in Perry County with a guy who is 27 years old.
On Thursday, the sheriff of Perry County, Mitch Nobles, lauded the actions of a couple who reported seeing a girl wandering down Highway 98 directly across from Perry Central High School and contacting the authorities.
“There was a couple that broke down right there on Highway 98 and this little girl approached them,” he told Fox News Digital. The couple noticed “something was wrong” and “contacted the sheriff’s office.”
The Further Investigation
After further investigation, the Perry County Sheriff’s Office determined that the girl was the missing 13-year-old from Houston and arrested and charged Thomas Patton with se@ual battery and kidnapping in connection with the girl’s disappearance from Houston in February. The charges are related to the girl’s missing in February.
The investigation has led authorities to think that Patton, a native of Perry County, met the girl in Houston when he was there for work and then brought her back to his home in New Augusta, which is located in the state of Mississippi.
Nobles explained that despite the fact that the incident is comparable in nature to trafficking, his office is unable to charge Patton with trafficking because “there was no exchange” for money or other materials when Patton allegedly kidnapped the girl from Texas and transported her across state lines. Nobles’ explanation was based on the fact that Patton allegedly kidnapped the girl from Texas and transported her across state lines.
The girl’s parents reported her missing from Houston in February, and according to the sheriff, “there was no news from her until we located her Thursday morning.”
Nobles continued by saying that he wants to “make the community aware, especially young ladies, to be very careful and not place themselves in this kind of circumstance” by getting into the vehicles of strangers. He said this because he is concerned about the safety of young women. We would like to recommend you a great news about Texas House Budgets $545 Million For Jail Air Conditioning.
“It’s definitely a dangerous situation for a missing 13-year-old from Texas to end up all the way over here in Mississippi,” he said.
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