Missing Beaverton Girl Found Safe: Police

Image of Madison Taussig via Beaverton PD

BEAVERTON, OR - A 13-year-old girl from Beaverton who had run away - possibly to meet up with an older man - has been found safe in Wilsonville.

Police say that Madison Taussig was found safe around 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon.

They had responded to her home on the 12030 SW block of Fulmar Terrace Friday afternoon after her parents reported her missing.

From the home's security system, they were able to determine she had left her house around 12:25 p.m. on May 12 on Thursday wearing all black. She reportedly left her home on a dark colored mountain bike.

Beaverton Police were able to track to her to Wilsonville based on activity from her cell phone. They think that she got there riding light rail.

Police believe that Madison had been trying to travel to another state to meet a man that she had been chatting with on Xbox Live.

Patch has learned that Madison had been chatting with men in several states and communicating with them by cell phone as well. In at least one case, she instructed the man to download an app that would make it seem as if he was calling her from a 503-area code. That's the area code for most of Oregon.

On Saturday morning she was entered into the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's data base. All law enforcement agencies along I5 have been notified.

All law enforcement agencies along the I5 corridor had also been notified.

There is still no word where she was found or with whom she was with.