Missing Pennsylvania Teen Found in Leesburg
Virginia State Police located the 17-year-old girl in the home of a man she met online. She was found unharmed.
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A 17-year-old girl was found in Leesburg late Thursday after she was reported missing from her Lower Alsace Township home in Reading, PA, last Saturday.
According to an article on ReadingEagle.com, Elizabeth Ocasio, who is home-schooled, was last seen near Antietam Middle-Senior High School around noon last week. She was with a man she had met online who had picked her up in Pennsylvania and had taken her back to his residence in Virginia, about three hours away, according to the article. The suspect's name has not been released.
To read more about cellphone records and other databases that led investigators to Leesburg, visit ReadingEagle.com.
As of Friday, Virginia State Police Trooper C. Cooper, who was a part of the investigation, was unable to comment. Leesburg Patch will provide an update as soon as one becomes available.
LeRoy Flanders Hughes
2:08 pm on Saturday, July 28, 2012
Still think Home Schooling is a good idea? Gee, let's pull the kids out of school and keep them home where I, someone is not a licensed educator can teach them while I isolate them from children their own age and deprive them of social interaction. And unless the guy is under the age of 18, I thought there were laws about an adult with a minor under the age of 18.