A missing 13-year-old girl from Kentucky has been rescued outside Washington, D.C. from a kidnapper after going missing more than two months ago, authorities said Sunday.
Wynter Wagoner disappeared from Orlando, Ky., on Oct. 14. She was found Friday at a home in Silver Spring, Md., police said.
Christian Alexander Delgado, a 37-year-old Silver Spring resident, was arrested and accused of kidnapping Wagoner, Montgomery County police said in a press release. He was held in Maryland pending his extradition to Kentucky.
“She is safe and that’s about all the information we can give at this time,” Wagoner’s father, Dustin, told Lexington, Ky., NBC affiliate WLEX on Saturday. “I do also want to say thank you for all the efforts in trying to find my daughter and all the prayers for her safety.”
Cops did not release any information about Wagoner’s condition, saying only that she had been “transported to an area hospital for evaluation.” Delgado surrendered without incident, authorities said.
Wagoner’s family had pleaded for months for help finding her. In mid-October, they said she’d been at a foster home for about a year before disappearing that month. Authorities did not say why Wagoner was in foster care.
“It’s the worst feeling I’ve ever had, and it’s never going to go away until I find her,” Dustin Wagoner said on Oct. 22. “It will change me forever. I gotta find her,”
In the days before Christmas, the Wagoner family held a vigil and another press conference in hopes of finding Wynter, pleading with the public for help.
