FBI Blasts Online Cruelty As Search For Missing NC Girl Continues

CHARLOTTE, NC — Federal investigators are taking to social media to denounce internet trolls, as the search for clues into the kidnapping of a 13-year-old girl from Lumberton reaches the 10-day mark.

An Amber Alert was issued Nov. 5 morning for Hania Noelia Aguilar, 13, after investigators say she was abducted from the Rosewood Mobile Home Park in Lumberton by a man driving a stolen 2002 Ford Expedition.

“Social media can be cruel,” the FBI Charlotte field office said in a tweet, referencing a statement, handwritten in spanish, made by her mother. “Hania Aguilar is still missing,” it said. “Support this Mother, her daughter was kidnapped.”

Lumberton Police Department posted a photo of her mother’s note, which said:

“I trust in God that my daughter will return. No one knows the pain I have in my heart. Despite all the criticism and speculation against me, I would never use my daughter’s name in order to take advantage of this situation. I thank all those people who have provided me help. Please, if you know something, call. I ask everyone not to make absurd comments. For the love of God respect my pain. I only want Hania, my princess, back. I miss her."

Investigators continue to search for leads related to her disappearance, and on Nov. 13 increased the reward for information to $25,000.

According to authorities, the abductor was wearing a yellow bandana around his face and was driving a green 2002 Ford Expedition with SC tags NWS984, peeling hood paint and a Clemson sticker in the back window. Several days later, the vehicle was located in Lumberton.

Last week, officers set up roadblocks near her home, where North Carolina State Highway Patrol officers stopped motorists and showed them her photo in order to identify people who travel that route daily and who may have seen something, the FBI said.

While investigators have been tight lipped about evidence collected so far in the search, the FBI Charlotte field office said Saturday that the North Carolina State Highway Patrol helicopter "flew evidence straight to Quantico so it could be immediately processed and analysed" by the FBI.
Aguilar is described as 5-foot tall, and weighs 125 pounds. She has long black hair, brown eyes and braces, and was wearing a blue shirt with flowers and blue jeans.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Lumberton Police Department at 910-671-3845, or 911.

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Photos courtesy of Lumberton Police Department