Manama: Eman, the 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl who absconded from her home in Florida has been found safe and unharmed.
Dean Sparks, Lincoln County Deputy Sheriff, said that Eman who was vacationing with her family in Kissimmee, Florida, was found living with an American family in McCook, a small city in Southwest Nebraska with a population of approximately 8,000.
The young girl had allegedly got to know the American family over the Internet. According to the police, she took a bus from Florida to Omaha where she’d made arrangements to be picked up.
She’d been staying in McCook for about a week when a relative of the US family saw a missing person reuniting with her mother and siblings. She’s a very lucky young lady,” Sparks said in a press release, quoted by the North Plate Telegraph.
According to the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department, Florida authorities have alerted the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office of a missing teen that they believed may have been in North Platte.
"Kuwait citizen Eman and her family were vacationing in Kissimmee, Florida when Eman was left alone at the house where they were staying. Upon her family's return, Eman was missing," the police said. Kissimmee Law Enforcement Officials tracked Eman to a local bus station where she had boarded a bus for Omaha, Nebraska.
Employees at the bus station told investigators that she said she had family in North Platte. However, her family told authorities that they had no family or friends anywhere in the United States. An investigation by the local police in cooperation with the Kuwaiti embassy in Washington led them to believe the missing girl was in the Omaha or McCook areas.
“The cooperation from the Kuwait government has just been tremendous,” Sparks said. “That type of cooperation is what helps agencies bring these types of things to a successful conclusion and we are very grateful.”
