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Showing posts with label missing teen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label missing teen. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 29, 2019

UPDATE - Savannah Pruitt, a missing 14-year-old from Tennessee, has been found safe in Wisconsin


UPDATE - Savannah Pruitt, a missing 14-year-old from Tennessee, has been found safe in Wisconsin 18 days after she was last seen, according to ABC News.  

At this point, there is no word on where in Wisconsin she was found.  Pruitt was last seen at her home in Madisonville, TN on January 13.  WATE-TV reports Pruitt’s adoptive father, Randall Pruitt, has been arrested and charged with rape. The local sheriff’s office was not able to provide any other details, including the circumstances of Randall Pruitt’s arrest.

MONROE COUNTY, Tenn. (ABC News) - Two weeks into an expanding search for a missing 14-year old girl from Tennessee, federal and local authorities are seeking public assistance, and her devastated parents are using visceral metaphors to describe the depths of their agony and plead for the public's help as the days Savannah Leigh Pruitt has been gone accumulate.
"It's like having your soul ripped out of your body," Randall Pruitt said at a press conference with authorities on Friday. "You can't think, you can't eat, you can't sleep, you can't rest -- life has just ceased for us since she left."
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has joined the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) and Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) to search for the missing teen, who was last seen at her home in Madisonville, Tennessee on Jan. 13, according to the FBI and local authorities.
"At this point in time, we truly need the eyes and ears of the community," a MCSO detective said Friday, according to ABC Knoxville affiliate WATE.
The Pruitt family had just moved back to Madisonville from Lawrenceville, Ga. in late December, according to Randall Pruitt, who opened up about his daughter alongside his wife, Savannah's mother, Christina Pruitt, on Friday, WATE reported.
Savannah loves horses, her pet raccoon and other family farm animals, her parents said on Friday, WATE reported, noting that the only time the girl's parents managed to crack a smile through tears was when they talked about their daughter's love for the family farm.
"We're very heartbroken," Christina Pruitt said Friday of the oldest of her four children. "I miss her. I don't understand...none of us understand."
"We love her dearly and we want her home -- I love you, and come home," the Pruitt parents said, finishing each other's sentences, according to WATE.

“We are asking for public assistance in finding Savannah Leigh Pruitt,” Sheriff Tommy Jones said in the post. "If anyone has information as to the whereabouts of Miss Pruitt, please contact the Sheriff’s Office at 423-442-3911 (423-442-HELP) or the TBI at 1-800-TBI-FIND.”
A dispatcher at the Monroe Sheriff's office told ABC News the detective was not immediately available to talk about the case, but the FBI confirmed the agency's involvement in the case in a press release this week.
Pruitt is 5 feet and 3 inches, 110 pounds and has blonde hair and blue eyes.
"She may have traveled to the Corbin KY area,' the MCSO's Facebook post said.

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Police, family worry about Hilltop teen missing for 3 weeks:


Police, family worry about Hilltop teen missing for 3 weeks

By  JoAnne Viviano  The Columbus Dispatch

Family photo Chantasja Silva has been missing since Dec. 3. 
She has brown eyes and black hair and may wear a wig. 
She is 5 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 130 pounds.

Columbus police are asking the public for help in finding a 15-year-old Hilltop girl whose mother last saw her when taking her to West High School on the morning of Dec. 3. 

Carlithia Silva said it’s as if her daughter, Chantasja, has “disappeared without a trace.”
“I can’t celebrate Christmas. I can’t decorate her room,” she said today. 

“It’s killing me for my daughter not to be here and me not to know anything. I just want her back.”
Silva said she was looking out a window washing dishes on the afternoon of Dec. 3 when she saw her son, Aquelinc, walking home without his sister. She sent him back for her, but he couldn’t find her. 

Since then, Silva, her husband, Ron, their three sons and other family members have been posting fliers, asking questions and searching.

Detective Jon Compson said Chantasja was seen on a surveillance camera at the school on the day she disappeared but police have no clues to her whereabouts. She is listed as an endangered runaway; Compson said police don’t know if she left on her own accord.

Her photo has been added to the listings on the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children website.

“This one here is starting to get us concerned ... especially with all the human trafficking,” Compson said. “We’re going on three weeks with no activity, no leads, nothing.” 

Chantasja, who goes by the nicknames Nai Nai and Tasja, is black with brown eyes and black hair and may wear a wig. She is 5 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 130 pounds.

The family is close, having moved to Columbus from Canton in Stark County in 2001, Mrs. Silva said. Her daughter did not have a cellphone and was not allowed online out of concerns for her safety, she said. 

Now a freshman, Chantasja was homeschooled as an eighth-grader so she wouldn’t have to stay in middle school without her brother, who is one grade her senior.

“I felt it was safer for both my kids to be together ... and then this happens and my daughter turns up missing anyway,” Mrs. Silva said.

“She’s somewhere in this city, and I’m just praying to God we find her alive. It’s been too long.”
Anyone with information about Chantasja Silva’s whereabouts is asked to contact the Columbus Police Division at 614-645-4624 or the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children at 1-800-843-5678.
@JoAnne Viviano 

 


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