The pressing two-month seek for lacking Wisconsin teen Sophia Franklin has been referred to as off after she was discovered protected — together with the 40-year-old man believed to have gotten her pregnant.
Franklin was noticed simply earlier than midnight Wednesday — her seventeenth birthday — with Gary Day, 40, close to Omaha, Nebraska, round 500 miles from her residence in Beaver Dam, in response to WISN.
Day — who’s “recognized to be the daddy” of Franklin’s unborn baby, in response to a multi-state Amber Alert when she went lacking Feb. 3 — was arrested after police positioned the pair off a tip.
The Amber Alert was canceled Thursday morning as Day was taken into custody.
He was charged with two counts of kid abduction and two counts of kid enticement in February.
Franklin — who’s 5 months pregnant — was taken to a hospital, the place each she and her unborn child had been decided to be wholesome, officers stated.
Early of their seek for the lacking teen, authorities revealed she had secretly stayed with Day at his residence in Cabot, Arkansas, for six months in 2024 whereas her household thought she was staying with a pal near residence in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.
Police positioned Franklin at Day’s residence in December once they had been conducting a probation test on Day, who was on probation for felony home battery expenses.
“Once they went to test on him, any individual ran out the again door, and that turned out to be a 16-year-old feminine from Wisconsin,” Lonoke County Sheriff John Staley stated.
Franklin was introduced again to Beaver Dam — solely to go lacking on Feb. 3, when a person showing to be Day was noticed on a doorbell digital camera close to Franklin’s residence early Monday, officers stated.
The case triggered an Amber Alert in Wisconsin, Arkansas and Missouri, in response to the outlet.
“The Beaver Dam Police Division want to thank the Sarpy County Sheriff’s Workplace, in addition to the quite a few different regulation enforcement businesses that put forth the effort and time to find Sophia,” Beaver Dam Chief John Kreuziger stated in an announcement.
“We’d additionally prefer to thank the neighborhood members in a number of states for his or her consciousness and willingness to share results in comply with to assist deliver Sophia safely residence,” Kreuziger added.
