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Missing Davidson County girl may be with sexual predator, officials say. Teen met person online, deputies say​

A missing 14-year-old girl may be with a person she met online, the Davidson County Sheriff's Office said Tuesday.

Before she went missing, Savannah Grace Childress had communicated on social media with a person. Those conversations, deputies said, were explicit at times and included language often used by sexual predators.

Savannah's mother, Nicole Childress, called Davidson County Emergency Communications on Feb. 11, saying that Savannah was missing. Investigators talked to Nicole Childress and her husband, Michael, and learned that Savannah was last seen at 7 a.m. that day by her father just before he left the house.



The last known contact with Savannah was at 8:35 a.m. that day when she logged off her virtual classroom at South Davidson High School, the sheriff's office said.

Davidson County school officials alerted her parents when Savannah failed to show up at her bus stop to get her younger sibling that afternoon. Michael Childress went home at 4:20 p.m. and couldn't find Savannah.

Detectives later learned that Savannah had used electronic devices to talk with an unidentified person through multiple online communication platforms. The sheriff's office said that the communications "were explicit in nature and the conversations included what detectives considered to be 'grooming' techniques and practices, commonly utilized by sexual predators."

The sheriff's office is working closely with several agencies, including the N.C. State Bureau of Investigation, FBI and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The sheriff's office has said additional information has been uncovered but said it couldn't share those details publicly because of the investigation.


This is a North Carolina Amber Alert for a Child Abduction....The Davidson County Sheriffs Office is searching for Savannah Grace Childress.
The victim is a white female, 14 years old, she is 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 135 pounds. She has medium length straight brown hair and green eyes. She was last seen on Thursday, February 11, 2021 in Denton, NC. She was wearing a yellow Mickey Mouse hooded sweatshirt and black with neon green Asic shoes.
Police are looking for an unknown male using the alias Will Hedglin. The description of the suspect vehicle is unknown.
Recommended Action: IF LOCATED OR IF YOU HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONTACT THE DAVIDSON COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE AT 336-249-0131

 
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It's also often true that kids are ahead of some adults and even some teachers on the newest workaround and such for lack of a better word and newest apps, etc. and just far more up on tech and the rapid development, changes, etc.
 

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