14-year-old Girl Runs Away with 18-year-old College Boy She Met Online
The moral of the story here is that a 14-year-old girl lied about her age and voluntarily ran away with an 18-year-old boy she met online.
Think your kids are perfect angels? Are you sure? Better think twice.
If the parents had computer monitoring software, they could have prevented this situation from happening.
Hindsight is 20/20… then again, monitoring what your children do on the Internet is just basic parenting in 2009…
November 4, 2009
Oldham County Missing Girl Found In Ohio
Rosemary Weiler Reported Missing Tuesday MorningOLDHAM COUNTY, Ky. — The father of a missing Oldham County 14-year-old girl said his daughter was been found in Ohio.
Rosemary Weiler, 14, was reported missing by her parents after 7 a.m. Tuesday. Her father said she was found safe and sound in Portsmouth, Ohio.
“When I got on the bus, everybody was freaking out saying, ‘Rosemary’s missing, and did you hear about Rosemary?” neighbor Drew Mitchell said.
Her family said she met an 18-year-old college student at Shawnee, Ohio. She told him she was 16 years old and he drove down to Oldham County to pick her up.
“For someone to be gone in the middle of the night, that’s kind of scary,” resident Mary Felt said. “It must have been really tragic for them to go through that all day and be so upset and panicked and you know, what happened to her, is she safe, is anything wrong?”
Detectives said they quickly started putting the online pieces together.
“(We) went through her chat and e-mail rooms that she was in. As far as with her computer, they had located a phone number for a gentleman, they contacted that number,” Oldham County Police Department spokesman Chris Morris said. “At this time, it’s unknown what his intent was, he obviously came down to Kentucky from Ohio to pick this female up and it’s unknown what, if there was a relationship prior to that, or they’d just met.”
The man took Weiler to the Shawnee Police Department after Oldham County police contacted him to tell him she was only 14 years old, officers said. Police said no charges will be filed.
“She is still sticking to the story that she told him she was older than she was, and with her saying that, we really can’t file charges against that 18-year-old adult, he was under the pretenses that she was older,” Morris said.
Authorities are using the episode to warn parents once more about the dangers of online predators.
“I know your kids don’t want you monitoring what they’re doing, but sometimes you need to, because there are predators out there,” Morris said.
Weiler’s father said he drove to Ohio to reunite with his daughter. He said he’s just glad his daughter is safe. He had no comment on the fact that no charges will be filed.
WLKY also asked police why that student couldn’t be charged with transporting a minor across state lines for sex.
Police said they just don’t have enough evidence to say that sex was the reason the student brought Weiler back to Ohio.
December 4th, 2009 at 1:31 AM
okay he didnt call the police, the police called him and told him to take me to the security center at the college. we had just met, he was only keeping me for 3 days then someone else was coming to pick me up and take me to his house in la, the person who came to get me was only trying to help me and make sure no pedophiles got to me first.