Missing North Carolina girl, 12, found naked in truck driver's cab (original) (raw)
Missing North Carolina girl, 12, found naked in truck driver's cab hundreds of miles from abduction site
The FBI was able to ping the missing girl's phone to the 33/55 truck stop and started a truck-by-truck search until they found her
When they finally located her they found her and Randy Donovan Taylor, 35, of Columbus, South Carolina, naked inside his semi-truck, police said
A missing North Carolina girl was found naked inside a semi-truck in Mississippi a week after she was reported missing.
On Tuesday, Carroll County Sheriff's deputies and FBI agents got a frantic call that a missing 12-year-old girl, who is Native American, could be heading to Vaiden, Mississippi. The FBI was able to ping the missing girl's phone to the 33/55 truck stop and started a truck-by-truck search until they found her, Carroll County Sheriff Clint Walker told CBS affiliate WJTV12.
When they finally located her they found her and Randy Donovan Taylor, 35, of Columbus, South Carolina, naked inside his semi-truck, police said. Taylor is facing multiple federal, state and local charges, including possession of child pornography and lustful touching in Carrroll County. The young girl was reported missing on Set. 29.
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Randy Donovan Taylor, 35, of Columbus, South Carolina, faces multiple federal, state and local charges, including possession of child pornography and lustful touching (
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Carroll County Sherriff's Office)
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She had been communicating with Taylor on her cell phone when he lured her from her home. 'Seeing that child step out of that truck was the best thing I've ever seen,' Walker said.
Taylor was denied bail by a federal judge and is currently being housed at the Carrol County Regional Correctional Facility.
“I want to thank the coalition of law enforcement agencies who worked together with us in returning this child to her family. Since her abduction on September 29th, the FBI has worked tirelessly trying to track and locate her along with many law enforcement agencies and officers, including but not limited to the Jackson Metro area, Intel Analysts, Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, Rankin County Sheriff’s Office, Madison County Sheriffs Office, and our agency,” Walker said.
The FBI was able to ping the missing girl's phone to the 33/55 truck stop and started a truck-by-truck search until they found her (
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Carroll County Sherriff's Office)
In the United States approximately every 40 seconds a child is abducted or goes missing, amounting to roughly 840,000 children, according to the Child Crime Prevention and Safety Center. Most cases are solved within hours, according to the center.
Last month, a boy who was abducted in California in 1951 was found alive at the age of 79, DailyMail.com reported.
On February 21, 1951 Luis Armando Albino was abducted from a park in West Oakland where he had been playing alongside his older brother, Roger, who was ten. A woman lured him by promising that she would buy him candy and then took him all the way to New York City where he was raised.