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The parents of US teenager Kaylee Jones, who has been missing for four months, fear she is a victim of sex trafficking. The 17-year-old, who has autism, disappeared from her second-storey bedroom in June without a mobile phone, sparking a search operation involving the FBI. Mum and dad Daniel and Brenda Jones believe she climbed out of the window to leave and say she was talking to men online at the time.
Kaylee was 16 when she disappeared from the family home in Carrolton, Georgia – 50 miles west of Atlanta.
In their latest appeal to the public on Friday, the local sheriff’s office – Carroll County Sheriff Office – said that, there have been no solid leads established on Kaylee’s whereabouts.
They said: “Heartbreaking that we are FOUR months later and Kaylee Jones is still missing.”
Police said the teenager was last seen in the area of Whooping Creek Road in Carrollton on June 14.
In July, Daniel and Brenda said they feared Kaylee had been sex trafficked after they discovered she had been communicating with older men online. They took away her mobile phone – and two days later she disappeared.
Speaking at the time, Mr Jones said he learned Kaylee had been talking “to four or five guys” online. He said: “You never think it’s going to happen to you. I tried to run this and enforce this and re-enforce this in her mind that she cannot trust everybody that she sees.”
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation, FBI, Secret Service and US Marshals Service are also involved in the search.
In their latest Facebook post, Carroll County Sheriff Office said: “There have been numerous tips called/emailed in to the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office over the last few months, but none have been substantiated.
“The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office has since day one been committed to locating Kaylee and have a team of dedicated investigators working this case and tirelessly following every lead and working in conjunction with many law enforcement agencies throughout the state and the country.
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In September, a vigil was held in Carroll County where lanterns were released into the night sky over Mount Pleasant Baptist Church.
Speaking at the vigil, her father told Fox5: “My daughter means everything. Our daughter means everything to us. We miss her dearly, her smiles, her personality.”
Mr Jones added: “We have just ripped ourselves apart trying to think of how we could’ve avoided this and we did what we thought we could do. We tried our best.
“The main reason we are here tonight is because the devil is out there. Satan is on the verge.
“He’s on the warpath, and he’s doing everything he can to tear us away. She wanted to help everybody. The little girl was a mountain of a person.”
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