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Missing Orlando girl, 11, found in Georgia with alleged abductor

Missing Orlando girl, 11, found in Georgia with alleged abductor
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Missing Orlando girl, 11, found in Georgia with alleged abductor
An 11-year-old girl who went missing from Orlando, has been found in Georgia.The girl's father told WESH 2 News that she was last seen at their East Orange County home when she went to bed Saturday night. Sunday morning, he went to wake her for church and she was gone.By late Sunday, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and FBI agents using electronic investigative techniques tracked the 11-year-old to Macon where police found her with a 24-year-old man at a Holiday Inn. Officials with the Bibb County Sheriff's Office said John Peter Byrns, of Hoffman Estates, Illinois, was taken into custody. "This is someone that she's been communicating with online under the guise of being a female and basically has just pulled her into a trap, so to speak," her father said.The girl's parents said they were aware that she had been playing the game Minecraft online with a person who claimed to be a young woman from Illinois. The two had never met and her dad never dreamed his daughter might be in danger.It's not known how she ended up in Georgia or what may have happened to her. Before her parents left to drive to Macon to get her, they had a heartfelt warning to share."We felt like we were having oversight into her personal world..but there's always just that danger that you're not possibly, ya' know keeping a close enough eye," her father said.The girl's family they are especially grateful to law enforcement for helping them find their daughter before it may have been too late. Byrns is being held for the F.B.I. in Bibb County.

An 11-year-old girl who went missing from Orlando, has been found in Georgia.

The girl's father told WESH 2 News that she was last seen at their East Orange County home when she went to bed Saturday night. Sunday morning, he went to wake her for church and she was gone.

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By late Sunday, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and FBI agents using electronic investigative techniques tracked the 11-year-old to Macon where police found her with a 24-year-old man at a Holiday Inn.

Officials with the Bibb County Sheriff's Office said John Peter Byrns, of Hoffman Estates, Illinois, was taken into custody.

"This is someone that she's been communicating with online under the guise of being a female and basically has just pulled her into a trap, so to speak," her father said.

The girl's parents said they were aware that she had been playing the game Minecraft online with a person who claimed to be a young woman from Illinois. The two had never met and her dad never dreamed his daughter might be in danger.

It's not known how she ended up in Georgia or what may have happened to her. Before her parents left to drive to Macon to get her, they had a heartfelt warning to share.

"We felt like we were having oversight into her personal world..but there's always just that danger that you're not possibly, ya' know keeping a close enough eye," her father said.

The girl's family they are especially grateful to law enforcement for helping them find their daughter before it may have been too late.

Byrns is being held for the F.B.I. in Bibb County.

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