Missing Charlotte Teen Found, Held Captive In Georgia

CHARLOTTE, NC -- A Myers Park High School student who has been missing for more than a year has been found in an Atlanta suburb where she was being held captive by a 31-year-old man who has been charged in her disappearance. She is now at her home in Charlotte with her parents, according to reports.

Hailey Burns, now 17, left her Baldwin Hall Drive home in Charlotte between the hours of midnight and 6 a.m. on Monday, May 23, 2016. She took few belongings with her and did not take any of the medication she needed for several medical conditions, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in May when it offered a $15,000 reward for leads.

Burns’ parents told a Charlotte news station in May that one of their daughter’s classmates told them that she “had been talking to a 30-year-old man for over six months,” and suggested he might have kidnapped her, WSOC reported. (Sign up for our free daily newsletters and Breaking News Alerts for the Charlotte Patch. iPhone users can download the Patch app in the App Store. Plus, like Charlotte Patch on Facebook.)

The Charlotte teen was located after she friended a woman from Romania online and sent her a photo from the window of the home she was being held in, in Duluth, Ga., northeast of Atlanta, according to The Charlotte Observer. The woman in Romania contacted Burns’ parents, and within five hours the teen was freed, the newspaper reported.

Burns’ abductor, Michael Ren Wysoloski, 31, has been arrested and charged with false imprisonment, sodomy/aggravated sodomy, interference with custody and cruelty to children involving first-degree deprivation, according to WBTV.

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