LA girl who was abducted in 2020 at the age of five is found SAFE living on other side of US
A five-year-old girl who was abducted from California almost six years ago has been found safe and well on the other side of the country.
Karen Rojas, who is now 11, was kidnapped on June 2, 2020, from Duarte, a city near Los Angeles.
She was was discovered living under an alias around 2,600 miles away in Washington County, North Carolina, on Tuesday.
Police in the Washington County Sheriff’s Office (WCSO) received a tip off from cops in Los Angeles who alerted them that the young girl could be in their state.
‘With the information provided to the deputies were able to determine that the child was enrolled in Washington County Schools under an alias name,’ WCSO said in a statement.
Rojas was taken into protective custody through the efforts of several agencies and the WCSO confirmed she is ‘safe.’
‘These are very rare occurrences to have such a positive outcome on such an old case as this, but it reminds us that through hard work, and dedication, and cooperation,’ noted WCSO. ‘Stories with positive outcomes like these can happen.’
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children identified Rojas as the missing girl, according to the Charlotte Observer.
Missing girl Karen Rojas, 11, was found safe and well six years after she was last seen in Los Angeles County
Rojas was only five years old when she was abducted. She was found around 2,600 miles away in North Carolina
WSCO said they are continuing to investigate her abduction and are limiting information due to her young age.
Rojas was understood to have been snatched by a non-custodial relative.
The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) has been probing her whereabouts ever since she vanished.
Rojas’s mother cut off contact with DCFS and allegedly kidnapped her, the statement noted.
A missing persons poster at the time described Rojas as Hispanic, with brown hair and brown eyes.
Los Angeles County is roughly 2,600 miles away from Washington County.
The Daily Mail has reached out to the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department as well as the WCSO for comment.
In December, a Kentucky teenager was found alive two states away months after she disappeared.
Rojas was last seen in Duarte, California but disappeared amid an investigation by the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS)
Wynter Wagoner, 13, was last seen at her foster parents’ home in Orlando on October 14.
Two months later, on December 26, she was found with a 37-year-old man at a Maryland home 560 miles away after investigators received a tip about her location.
Maryland police arrested and charged the man, Christian Alexander Delgado, with kidnapping.
During an initial court appearance in Maryland, Delgado claimed the whole situation was a ‘misunderstanding’.
